On 2010-01-26 18:22 , Bret Perry wrote:
> Apple would have had to PAY Adobe for the privilege of making a plug-in using Adobe's patented file format .indd (I think, not a lawyer)

you don't patent formats, you patent methods

Apple could probably "decode" the format, but it would take time & money

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