In article , JJ
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nope. a bmp is a representation of an image.

Nope. BMP is a container of an image.

i.e. a representation.

It's what all other formats decompress
to.

false.

For you who uses Mac OS, that would be true - including *nix OSes. But not
for Windows and IBM OS/2.

it's false regardless of operating system.

there
is also the issue that a given raw format might not be readable at some
point in the future, whereas jpeg always will be.

I find it difficult to believe that no software in the future will be able
to read older image formats - no matter how hard the software developers try
to.

some formats are proprietary and there is no guarantee that they will
be readable in the future. when the apps that can read/write them cease
to work, you're ****ed.