Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in
sibachian@lemmy.ml 1 week agobut this is really only true and a problem for the end user, and you can’t maintain an empire by refusing to collaborate with the larger user base.
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
“The end-user” is another way to say “everyone in the developed world”, and nobody is refusing to collaborate with Microsoft here. What has happened that Microsoft then agreed to collaborate, did so in bad faith, and released what they are calling and open standard, but it is neither open nor standard.
OnlyOffice appears to be trying their best to adhere to this “standard”, but their best efforts are still resulting in substantial rendering differences of the same document in OnlyOffice and Word. That means to me that at least one of the following must be true:
The dubious events around the establishment and adoption of this “standard” make me lean strongly toward the 3rd option,which is in keeping with entire documented history of Microsoft’s hostile, aggressive, and bad faith business practices.