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Germany committing to ODF and open document standards (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

good. can't wait for places to send me an odf text document instead of word.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In 20 years then. All the custom-built software that is alteady 10 years out of date is built with Microsoft ptoducts as a hard requirement. Replacing that costs money. And if conservative governments hate one thing it's spending money on something that won't benefit their lobbyists.

[–] enemenemu@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's time to replace that old crap

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Conservative government?

[–] ThoGot@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Absolutely

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 16 hours ago

So it's absolutely not happening within 20 years 🤣

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or even better, PDF

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago

thats what I send to places if they don't dictate something first.