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Germany committing to ODF and open document standards (blog.documentfoundation.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think they were always on a smaller scale. With this one, I'm somewhat hopeful that it'll stick, and be a long term effort.

committee consisting of representatives of Germany’s federal government and the state governments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the whole country this time, and Microsoft's position has changed a lot. 👍

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

What if MS ends up providing Linux "support" then?

They already have WSL

In case of ODF, well from what I remember, MS office could export to it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

In case of ODF, well from what I remember, MS office could export to it

You probably mean .odt, but yes. It's an open format. Which is the whole point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, odt.

It's laughable how I manage to keep on mistaking it after multiple years of using it.

My point with odt was that MS probably won't feel much of an urgency by it as long as they can keep lobbying for MS Office to be used with whatever formats the govts want.

And considering how LibreOffice executables on Windows tend to be pretty slow, they might manage to fool enough non-tech people. (who don't realise that it actually works pretty well on Linux)