Oddbean new post about login | logout @5f9bb1a8 About 25 years back, I spent months writing a longish program in Visual Basic 3, because we were going all-Microsoft and I was assured it was The Thing, that automatic GUI creation was the Future. Visual Basic 4 did not support my program; there wasn't even a way to port it. That was the last time I depended on any commercial software to be the underlying platform that I had to depend on. Anything but open-source is just begging to have the rug pulled out. Sole exception is Excel.
@20caf6ac Interesting experience, Roy. I think many of us believed in some (closed) tech, in some point of our lives, and were disappointed. I don't want to depend from any closed platform anymore. I can still read and write my 25+ years old contents, as I've always saved them in open formats. That's the only way to preserve our precious data.