... about a socially abusive IT industry backed up by the government for obscure interests ...

-The madness of the amerikan led IT industry may hopefully have to end sooner or later.

-In political terms it is "discrimination" and in business terms is "unfair business practice" to impose on the people to have to change almost everyday their mode of working because "the government" and "the industry" have to chase the latest stupid "technology update" of immature and buggy products, for which the older releases may not be available or may not run in a specific environment.

-The fact that the government encourages this practice with absolutelly no logical standardization on "public domain" formats, (where "public domain" translates into "of property of the people" AS ANY PUBLIC DOCUMENT SHALL BE BY THE LAW), is an indication of the fact that lobbystic and personal interests conflict with the interest of the country and the people, and that the government chooses willingly to violate the country and the people interests, "the national interest", by adopting and mandating such formats, or by omitting to mandate and regulate availability of backward compatibility formats, thus betraying the essence of its "public" function of "regulating" the predominance of the social interest of the many, the people, against the interests of the few, the IT industry, when such behavior generates an enormous amount of waste of national and individual productivity, in any level of society and in any segment of production, without even considering the world effects on US reputation, for such miopic policies.

-If this government would care about public interest, it would "mandate" any public and private document to be available in pure text format and on a "long support" "public domain format" with a 10 year revision cycle, and would "mandate" the use of such format in any transaction having legal effect, in the relations involving the country, regardless if public or private. The absence of legislative intervention to regulate the chaos produced by a miopic chaotic and lunatic industry, is producing damaging loss of productivity of the entire country, for which the amounts are not even possible to estimate at this moment.

-Like the joke said, at our time "computers help to solve problems that were not problems before the computer age", something to meditate about.

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