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An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement (blog.documentfoundation.org)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/libreoffice@discuss.tchncs.de
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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Back in the land of reality governments have decades of office documents Ina proprietary format that need to be delt with so any office suite at least in the beginning need to access to them as written.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    It's almost as if a suite's capability to open a format is not tied to its default format.

    According to the article, Euro-Office defaults to Microsoft's format, instead of .ods, so the whole "sovereignty" argument sure seems to be getting kicked down there road for later, while being used for maximum marketing.

    It's just standard corner-cutting hypocrisy.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    There are also decades document management systems, databases and other 3rd party tools that only speak ooxml. Defaulting to odf guarantees that documents will be incompatible, which will cause unnecessary friction.

    All it takes is one high up civil servant to hit this issue, say "The MS tools never did this", and the entire transition will be in jeopardy. The people using these tools want to create documents that are compatible, that is ALL they care about.

    HDDVD and betamax lost the format war. So did ODF. Its time to move on.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Again they have decades of documents that need to be dealt with so of course its going to default to MS format, I figured people would get that. I use Softmaker office for the exact same reason because in the real world I need to deal with the format.

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