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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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Apple solved this problem by reverse-engineering MS Office and producing the iWork Suite: Pages, Numbers and Keynote, which could perfectly read and write Microsoft's Word, Excel and Powerpoint files. That adversarial interoperability saved the company, but the gambit wasn't one-and-done.
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2026-08-14T11:59:05.784Z