Comment on Beeper Mini Is Back

doublejay1999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Which is rich considering they reverse-engineered MS Office formats to get their office suite to work

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  • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is that true? I thought the specs were publicly available

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    • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      AFAIK only the “new” formats are (for the basic apps, the ones ending on x). Apple’s office suite is much older than those.

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  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think most if not all of those formats are plaintext? Open a .doc and it’s a heap of garbage XML-like soup.

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    • paf0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It is now but the older formats used to be more like an executable byte code. Efficient but insecure.

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well they’ve blocked it once. It’ll be interesting to watch. Not sure of the legalities. Hard to say.

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