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> On 09/03/2015 11:00 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> > In the age of thousand page datasheets, non-machine-readable format is a bug that needs to be fixed. On the other hand I'm highly
> > sceptic about vendors being cooperative on this.
> 
> You may be onto something about chip companies.  They seem to foster lock-in.

Ideally they write software so it could import all sort of documents but export only there own format. Even though it seems ideal at the first glance the smart customer do not want to themself into a corner.


In open source you get something for free but but can't copyright an improved version. Over time open source software improve and value of similar copyrighted software decrease.