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An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement

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#digitalsovereignty #libreoffice #odf

An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement - TDF Community Blog

Dear office suite users, In recent days you will have read various articles announcing the arrival of Euro-Office, which is being “marketed” as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe.
Italo Vignoli (TDF Community Blog)
#odf #digitalsovereignty #libreoffice

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A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty

When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is that an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support.

OOXML — the format behind Microsoft’s docx, xlsx and pptx files — does not work this way.

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#odf #ooxml

A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty - TDF Community Blog

When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is reasonable: an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support.
Italo Vignoli (TDF Community Blog)
#odf #ooxml

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