Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Gotta love Germany.

  Fun fact: the German equivalent of the BBC, DW, will teach you German if you want to learn it, for free. A but niche but a nice thing to do!

  www.dw.com

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  • LorIps@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    DW isn’t the equivalent of the BBC, it would be the equivalent of e.g. Radio Free Europe. DW is entirely funded by the German government, in contrast to the BBC or ARD/ZDF which are independently funded. I’m not saying DW is bad, but it isn’t the equivalent of the BBC.

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• recycle_me_please@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Gut

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• ruplicant@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  good!

  Germany’s decision to anchor ODF at the heart of its national sovereign stack confirms what we have argued for years: open, vendor-neutral document formats are not a niche concern for some technology specialists and FOSS advocates. They are a fundamental infrastructure for democratic, interoperable and sovereign public administrations.

  I’m gonna repeat this, as expressed here, to a few people

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  • S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As a guy who worked with property recods in US fucking yes. Some states gove the records in a closed format invented by one company. So you have to have their software if you want to work in some states.
    Add it to the pile of illegal shit that is legal I guess…

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve heard building codes can be just as bad, some places the law just says to follow a book and you have to pay some company like $300 to get the book and license things

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• Freakazoid@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hopefully the rest of Europe will follow.

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oddly the UK is somehow ahead here gov.uk/…/using-open-document-formats-odf-in-your-…

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    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Despite being so shit in many different respects (a chronic use of external consultants and contractors means the UK seems less likely than other European countries to make progress on a sovereign tech stack), the UK is pretty good with its data. There’s a surprisingly amount of data that’s released and is in a sensible format.

      During the teachers strikes last year, I ended up using playing around making visualisations using the data about the number of teachers in various parts of the country, and I was pleased to see how much there was there and how clearly it was documented. There are very few things I’m proud of the UK for, so I am glad to have this as one

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• fluxx@mander.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wow, some good news on Lemmy? Sign me up!

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  • Slovene85@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    !goodnewseveryone@piefed.social

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    • themaninblack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sick! Are there any more of these?

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• Hiro8811@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isn’t odf the one used by libre office?

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Isn’t it odt that LibreOffice uses? I wonder what the difference is.

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    • trougnouf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Open document text is a subset of open document format

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    More than that, it’s standardization made MS panic and pseudo-standardize their OOXML (.docx & co.) a year later, since some govt wanted to switch to ODF back in 2007, instead of relying on sone proprietary format. The pseudo, because most of the format is proprietary extensions (and only the strict variant, which MS doesn’t set as default), which made the standardization a …unusual process.

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  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes and they they switched form MsOffice to Libre like few years ago

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• Kapirotto@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s so good to see initiatives like these! Hope it spreads across Europe and the World.

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hell yes. I wonder how many man-hours of strategy meetings MS had on their calendars to fend that decision off.

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• wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Based

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• anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Their contract with Microslop must be up for renegotiation.

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  • maplesaga@lemmy.world ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Much of Europe break their own procurement laws to choose Microslop, no idea why.

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember reading this headline in 2004

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