An open letter to Palm for open file formats

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Palm doesn't use files. The Palm "filesystem" is really just a database.

And if you're talking about the record format of their built-in apps (such
as Appointments, ToDo, etc), they have released those recently.

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<ettinger@cs.uoregon.edu> wrote in message
news:1115330697.848892.104200@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Dear Palm,
>
> I sincerely appreciate your work in the synchronization and sharing
> arena. However, you are making it increasingly hard for me to recommend
> your products. We have a wide variety of products at use in our company
> of more than 200 people. I have to be able to talk to all of them to
> make sharing actually work and not just be a buzzword.
>
> When someone can only export one item at a time in VCS format to share
> with others in a standard format, that's a problem.
>
> When you suddenly change the file format, and don't tell developers how
> to parse it, that's a problem.
>
> History on the net has shown that products that have the ability to
> survive have the ability to be modified to be useful. I don't want to
> modify your OS; all I want is Palm to get on board and be a team player
> in using a well documented ICS (or even the less-documented VCS) file
> format -- and I know I'm not the only one that feels this way.
>
> Thanks,
>
> A Frustrated Developer
>