data interchange format for board layout?

[JeffM]

JeffM wrote:

reminds me of a description of the way BillG sees business
--not like NASCAR
(where everybody that finishes goes home with a bit of the pot),
but like a Demolition Derby where it's winner-take-all.

Joerg wrote:

Do you have any link where he actually said or wrote that?

I found the quote. It was by ESR, the guy who wrote
"The Cathedral and the Bazaar":
(The quote is at the 50 percent point)
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:xvpn8VluBXIJ:www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween1.html+MS.believes.that.putting.other.companies.out.of.business.is.not.merely.collateral.damage+Eric.S.Raymond+*-Cathedral-*-*-*+Microsoft-and-freedom-of-choice-*-*-*-*-*-*-*