Blaze@piefed.zip to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 26 days agoGermany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatoryblog.documentfoundation.orgexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up1300arrow-down13 cross-posted to: buyfromeu@feddit.orgtechnology@lemmy.worldopensource@lemmy.ml
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minus-squarehuppakee@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·26 days agoI understand why the world is the way it is, but still it should have been obvious all along that it is not ideal for the government to data in a file format owned by a company. Even worse, a foreign company.
minus-squareNostraDavid@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·26 days agoDo note that xlsx, docx, etc, are all just .zip files with XML files inside. If such a file is corrupt, extract it, and check what you can salvage. That being said: Still controlled by MS, and thus a potential threat to the EU.
I understand why the world is the way it is, but still it should have been obvious all along that it is not ideal for the government to data in a file format owned by a company. Even worse, a foreign company.
Do note that xlsx, docx, etc, are all just .zip files with XML files inside. If such a file is corrupt, extract it, and check what you can salvage.
That being said: Still controlled by MS, and thus a potential threat to the EU.