The reason we use computers is to manipulate data. It used to be called “Data Processing” for a reason and that was an accurate description. We still process data although it may be in the form of video and audio streams, network and wireless streams, word processing data, spreadsheets, images, and more. It is all still just data.
We work with and manipulate text data streams with the tools we have available to us in Linux. That data usually needs to be stored, and when there is a need to store data, it is always better to store it in open file formats than closed ones. ...
