mark pilgrim, an early open-source person, recently switched from apple over to linux... in a blog entry on this, he talks about archiving, and how it gets complicated by file-formats and _especially_ by d.r.m. (which hobbles it by design), and remarks open source does not always equate to open formats (using "gimp" as an example of it). even before he mentioned project gutenberg, i was thinking i'd share a pointer, so here it is:

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/16/juggling-oranges

-bowerbird p.s. i highly recommend -- for guys -- pilgrim's blog entry before this, "howto make the perfect fruit salad and get laid."