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The 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
by lima 7y ago
The 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!