News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses. Parent comment

Re:Lack of leadership in open source results in source-avail... by xeeeeeeeeeeenu on Saturday June 01, 2019 @04:06PM (#20071328)
.docx (Office Open XML) isn't propertiary, it's an open standard.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Lack of leadership in open source results in source-avail... by jchw on Saturday June 01, 2019 @04:08PM (#20071342)
True, that was a bad example, but honestly it's irrelevant. Same point could be made about .doc when it was reversed back when. I thought there was even a court case about someone reverse engineering .doc a while back, but I can't find it right now.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Lack of leadership in open source results in source-avail... by Nursie on Saturday June 01, 2019 @06:34PM (#20072126)
It's a bad open standard though - microsoft basically stacked ISO to push it through.
[ Parent | on HN ]