It seems like a lot of european countries have started becoming more concerned with digital sovereignty and some have begun enforcing using open formats like ODF / ODS
I’m struggling to find support though. A lot of software seems to open ODS files but force the XLSX format on save.
I’d expect something like OnlyOffice to have support since it’s used by the French government and the government of their German neighbours is enforcing ODS usage + there should be a reasonable library they could import to make it work without a large overhead
Oh, I feel like I’ve gotta let you know the (post 2003/7?) Microsoft formats are technically “open” in that the spec is available for anyone to implement, license free
They saw ODF coming and made sure to kneecap any advantage
#3 is an incredibly recent development. You don’t need to go back even half a decade before everyone was happily gargling Microsoft
not that microsoft actually follows those standards 100%.
Ah! They are open? Partly my bad then. I also wondered if ODF was written in a way that prohibited online collaboration, or at least made it very expensive.
Yeah, on #3 I think I misremembered how far back France started using open source. Hopefully this means more ODF native options