.Folio File Format

Hi DPS Community,
I need some clarification on the titled.
A couple of years ago, Adobe announced that they were going to offer the .Folio file format for free. Off the back of the news that Adobe are doing away with Single Edition via Creative Cloud, my mind has taken me back to this announcement.
What exactly does this mean? Can one join forces with a developer and carry on making Single Edition and, maybe, Newsstand apps?
Hopefully this all made sense? I'm just trying to find the next best alternative to Single Edition that doesn't resort to me paying a Billion bucks for another DPS service. Do you know what I mean?
Thanks in advance :-)

In theory you could take the .folio file format specification and build a viewer to render that content. Once you actually see how much engineering time and expense that will take I suspect you will decide not to do it
There are plenty of other threads in this forum about alternatives to DPS Single Edition. A quick search should turn them up, including discussions of the pros and cons of those solutions.
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Neil let clear something:
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