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LibreOffice slams Euro-Office as ‘de facto ally’ of Microsoft (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1188778/libreoffice-slams-euro-office-as-de-facto-ally-of-microsoft

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[–] -3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's a poorly designed standard without a doubt. But it is the format people use, and no one who uses it is paying Microsoft (including LibreOffice).

Whinging about people using it is not the way to make useful software.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I basically agree with you, but I'm also a little pedantic, so I'll also say that if the standard format isn't the format MSOffice outputs, then the standard format isn't the format everyone is using, they're using a similar but incompatibly different format. And so if there's an opportunity to pick what the standard must be going forwards, and the actual true OOXML spec has effectively zero users, and what MSOffice outputs isn't an open standard, then you might as well pick ODF which has more than zero users and is standardized.

    But again, this is moot if the thing MSOffice outputs is actually actually OOXML now.

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