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Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF

49 pointsby ChrisArchitecttoday at 3:51 PM4 commentsview on HN

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CopyOnWritetoday at 5:05 PM

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?)

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advisedwangtoday at 5:36 PM

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.

ChrisArchitecttoday at 3:56 PM

Related:

Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490564