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> I had used Mendeley for years to annotate and categorize literature. I was now in need to send my categorized PDFs to a central repository for my co-authors to evaluate and add to. After some update, without me noticing it, it was no longer possible to export folders of PDFs or PDFs in general!

This is exactly why you should not depend on proprietary software for anything even remotely important. This is not the first nor will it be the last time that something like that happens. Letting a company (or an individual) dictate how and if I can access my work is unacceptable to me.

Thankfully Zotero is FOSS, I will be staying with BibTeX though.



The adage is certainly true: "with proprietary software, the user doesn't control the program, the program controls the users".




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