Nobody likes to think about faithful friends dying, but Micah Walter has brought up again a subject that I try not to think about very much: data lock-in. As data-locked-in computer users go, I’m not very locked in. I mostly live in text files, source code, email and the web. I have some confidence that my source control repositories will be readable for some time to come and that any migrations from them will be automatically handled by the next source control system to come along (you can already see that happening with Git-svn).

My photography, however, is another story and it rather scares the pants off me when I think about it too much... all of that is locked into proprietary formats. All of it.