Re:Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish
by grishka on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:58PM
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> An example of a lock-in is excel back in the time when the format wasn't public.
It wasn't public but it was reverse engineered and supported by things like OpenOffice. Anything, especially a file format, that is both proprietary and popular gets reverse engineered at some point.
It wasn't public but it was reverse engineered and supported by things like OpenOffice. Anything, especially a file format, that is both proprietary and popular gets reverse engineered at some point.