<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lagged2Death</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure a .doc file created fifteen years ago also still renders in Word.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check this out:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://timtyson.us/archives/2008/01/theft-by-taking/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;timtyson.us&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;2008&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;theft-by-taking&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Old MS Office file formats were never engineered to be future proof in any way, and they&amp;#x27;re a huge headache for Microsoft, and they do indeed behave oddly in new software, and Microsoft cannot wait to get rid of them, and nobody in their right mind can blame them, honestly.&lt;p&gt;Open standards &lt;i&gt;rock&lt;/i&gt;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thetrb</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure a .doc file created fifteen years ago also still renders in Word.&lt;p&gt;Same for a PDF file created 15 years ago or most other formats. So I don&amp;#x27;t really see your point about open standards in this case.</text></item><item><author>Arubis</author><text>An HTML file virtually unchanged in fifteen years still renders cleanly in a modern browser. Backwards compatibility across open standards is a wonderful thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998</title><url>http://www.microsoft.com/games/monster/default.htm</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>broodbucket</author><text>Yeah, you point out the winners, think back 15 years ago.  How many competitors were there just in the realm of word processing?  Every format but the eventual winner (which couldn&amp;#x27;t be determined at the time) is now completely useless, whereas an abundance of old dud open image formats can still be opened (which is nice because some are really easy to programmatically generate)</text><parent_chain><item><author>thetrb</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure a .doc file created fifteen years ago also still renders in Word.&lt;p&gt;Same for a PDF file created 15 years ago or most other formats. So I don&amp;#x27;t really see your point about open standards in this case.</text></item><item><author>Arubis</author><text>An HTML file virtually unchanged in fifteen years still renders cleanly in a modern browser. Backwards compatibility across open standards is a wonderful thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998</title><url>http://www.microsoft.com/games/monster/default.htm</url></story>