Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open Document Format – a fully standardised format […]
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)
You probably mean .odt, but yes. It’s an open format. Which is the whole point.
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)