• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    or in what way the format remains proprietary.

    Most of it is proprietary extensions. There’s a whole wikipedia article over the drama.

    Stallman quote:

    Microsoft corrupted many members of ISO in order to win approval for its phony ‘open’ document format, OOXML. This was so governments that keep their documents in a Microsoft-only format can pretend that they are using ‘open standards.’ The government of South Africa has filed an appeal against the decision, citing the irregularities in the process.

    And FSFE’ stance on it.

    Edit: moved it in a separate comment.

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      To me, this would be like if VLC made an angry post about the evils of MP3 instead of just making a great player that can handle it (which they have). People still use VLC because we know that it will handle anything. Plus, they’ve kept the interface simple and intuitive, with most needed functions front and center, with lots of specialized features in menus and settings.

      LibreOffice is losing ground because they don’t take design seriously and instead of making interoperability a priority, they would rather complain about user preferences.

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        No clue. Maybe they got rid of old stuff?

        The situation with OOXML didn’t get better at least.