▲ 769 ▼ Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory (blog.documentfoundation.org) submitted 7 months ago by FirmDistribution@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 28 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (6 children) Isn't odf the one used by libre office? permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) More than that, it's standardization made MS panic and pseudo-standardize their OOXML (.docx & co.) a year later, since some govt wanted to switch to ODF back in 2007, instead of relying on some proprietary format. The pseudo, because most of the format is proprietary extensions (and only the strict variant is standard-conformant, which MS doesn't set as default), which made the standardization a ...unusual process. Btw, usually, there's only one standard format for a specific usecase. Edit: typo permalink fedilink source parent [–] splendid9583@kbin.earth 7 points 7 months ago permalink fedilink source parent [–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* Yes and they switched form MsOffice to Libre like few years ago for all government agencies permalink fedilink source parent [–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (2 children) Isn't it odt that LibreOffice uses? I wonder what the difference is. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trougnouf@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 child) Open document text is a subset of open document format permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago Thank you! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) More than that, it's standardization made MS panic and pseudo-standardize their OOXML (.docx & co.) a year later, since some govt wanted to switch to ODF back in 2007, instead of relying on some proprietary format. The pseudo, because most of the format is proprietary extensions (and only the strict variant is standard-conformant, which MS doesn't set as default), which made the standardization a ...unusual process. Btw, usually, there's only one standard format for a specific usecase. Edit: typo permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* Yes and they switched form MsOffice to Libre like few years ago for all government agencies permalink fedilink source parent
[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (2 children) Isn't it odt that LibreOffice uses? I wonder what the difference is. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] trougnouf@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 child) Open document text is a subset of open document format permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago Thank you! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] trougnouf@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 child) Open document text is a subset of open document format permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago Thank you! permalink fedilink source parent