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Seems to be a weak pitch for an Israeli startup called Factify. Their new document type is also closed sourced which seems like an obvious showstopper for a ubiquitous global document replacement, especially in today's extremely heated and untrustworthy environment.

No strong argument imo for replacing the pdf.

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PDF is not exactly closed source though. It’s an international standard. And even, unlike most ISO standards, is freely available.

It weirdly reminds me of SynthID/C2PA. At the end of the day, they matter very little. People are going to do what they want to do.

If people want to manage version/access etc, they are going to do it right the first time with existing document format and permission control mechanism, ranging from "making rhe document only accessible to certain users" to "have someone read a document in a specific room", which has worked reasonably well.

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