Why a digital document is a piece of software, and what that means for your freedom
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Why a digital document is a piece of software, and what that means for your freedom
Most people think of a digital document the way they think of a sheet of paper: an object that holds words and pictures, indifferent to the tool used to open it. This intuition is wrong, and the consequences shape everything from vendor lock-in to cybersecurity to the long-term readability of public records.
A digital document is a piece of software.
