It is so frustrating... in tech circles, it is widely known/understood for at least 2 decades, that an open file/data format is much more important than open source software.
Just make ODF the mandatory file format and be done with it. (Yes, I know, old documents and the work of transforming ... but if we do not start right now, when would be a better time?)
Mandatory where? it is already the preferred format of the British government, and I think I have read about other adoption, and as well as some governments adopting open source office suites which would push them towards ODF.
Other governments could follow, but the private sector is reluctant. Even Airbus which is a high profile move away from MS has gone to Google Docs.
LibreOffice seems to be badly fumbling making a web version. Euro-Office, the falling-out with collabora and other such drama all seem to be downstream of LibreOffice Online sucking and being hard to deploy.
Amen.
It is so frustrating... in tech circles, it is widely known/understood for at least 2 decades, that an open file/data format is much more important than open source software.
Just make ODF the mandatory file format and be done with it. (Yes, I know, old documents and the work of transforming ... but if we do not start right now, when would be a better time?)
Mandatory where? it is already the preferred format of the British government, and I think I have read about other adoption, and as well as some governments adopting open source office suites which would push them towards ODF.
Other governments could follow, but the private sector is reluctant. Even Airbus which is a high profile move away from MS has gone to Google Docs.
Because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
LibreOffice seems to be badly fumbling making a web version. Euro-Office, the falling-out with collabora and other such drama all seem to be downstream of LibreOffice Online sucking and being hard to deploy.
Related:
Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490564