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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: "atomic knowledge" modeling tool
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 08:49:32 +0000
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To: luke call <luke350@onemodel.org>
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Hi Luke,

thanks for the very comprehensive answer.  I can now see where you are
heading.  And it's a laudable direction.

But not for me because of one fundamental property of org: "it's all
text".

I've been in this business a very *long* time and, if I've learnt
anything at all, it's that formats come and go but text remains [1].  If
I have any issue with what org or emacs are doing, I *know* that I can
open up the file in vim, say, and have all my content available.  Or I
can M-x text-mode RET in emacs and I can see everything as well.

YMMV, of course :-)

Thanks again,
eric

Footnotes: 
[1]  well, I did start with EBCDIC, moved to US-ASCII and now use UTF-8...

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.1, Org release_8.3.3-449-gd85ff3