Brkdncr comments on LibreOffice reveals how Microsoft manipulated the system to standardize OOXML instead of ODF

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

OOXML is trash and should not have gained traction. The entire process was gamed without much obfuscation.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 21 points 2 weeks ago

Quote straight from "Pirates of Silicon Valley"

Steve Jobs: We're better than you are! We have better stuff.

Bill Gates: You don't get it, Steve. That doesn't matter!

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[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

That's the one that mostly boil down to "Do things like Word" with a lot of empty text to avoid details?

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

It’s just a container for other file formats in some cases. A .docx file might as well say “this is a .doc file” inside of it.

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