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But AFAIK it's only thanks to European Union and pressure from various groups that we can open MS Office formats on other platforms and programs, no strings att
by darkwater 7y ago
But AFAIK it's only thanks to European Union and pressure from various groups that we can open MS Office formats on other platforms and programs, no strings attached. Being retro-compatible in a walled garden only doesn't make all that sense.
- rubber_duck 7y agoI think in the era of cloud and web this was bound to happen anyway due to market pressure, similar how Windows/Azure embraced Linux
- lima 7y agoThe antitrust case helped, but it's only thanks to massive reverse engineer efforts by open source developers that this kind of compatibility exists. Even when you have the specs, it's a massive effort to re-implement. > Being retro-compatible in a walled garden only doesn't make all that sense. It makes perfect sense from the company's point of view.
- darkwater 7y ago>> Being retro-compatible in a walled garden only doesn't make all that sense. > It makes perfect sense from the company's point of view. Yeah, for sure, but I was criticizing OP that was praising MS for still being compatible with their own 20+ years old proprietary and hegemonic document format.
- gmueckl 7y agoWell, it was kind of the old way of inplementing a subscription based business model: want to stay compatible with the rest of the world? Pay up!
- dosy 7y agoIt makes a lot of sense if you own the garden and charge people admission. ;P ;)
- fortran77 7y agoWhy doesn't the EU pressure Apple to make sure the Apple Write and Apple Pages, etc, still work?!