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anonzzzies 33 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s ma...

This has always been the case , for most companies, but MS is very well known for it. Play along until you have enough market share and then break things in undocumented ways.

bayindirh 33 days ago [–]

Or look like you're opening things by writing open standards which point out to Microsoft internal documents of closed file formats.

Then, try to standardize them.

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