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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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Microsoft spent years maliciously introducing changes to the Office file formats that broke compatibility with iWork, which Apple countered by paying an army of coders to swiftly analyze these new formats and update iWork to maintain compatibility with them:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay
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2026-08-14T11:59:05.811Z