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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I didn't say they did anything to the standard, but they took it as a start for their own format.
It'd be the same as if I am a very big company, and you plus 5 other people are small(er) companies. We are working together on a product (with the intent to sell it, and then make money), and at 90% completion, I, as a big company say:
"Thanks for the work dudes. I'm going to take ALL our work, add some stuff here, change some stuff there so it becomes incompatible with your stuff, and then I'm going to sell it all on my own. And I can do it because I'm big."
That's honorless.
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Umm.
EPUB is released under an open license and in open formats. The express intent of open formats is to be used in this manner.
I don't understand why people are surprised when open protocols are extended. This website you're on right now exists solely because people took open protocols and extended them.