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Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme

“It’s been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats — and the beginning of a long but largely unsuccessful attempt to loosen Microsoft Office’s grip on the ...continues

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GadgeteerZA · Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme“It's been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats — and the

"Der IT-Planungsrat setzt sich dafür ein, dass in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung offene Formate wie das Open Document Format (ODF) zunehmend Verwendung findet und bis 2027 zum Standard für den Dokumentenaustausch wird."

#ODF #OpenStandards #opensource #Deutschland

it-planungsrat.de/beschluss/be

www.it-planungsrat.deBeschluss 2025/06 - Offene Austauschformate |Die Seite Beschluss 2025/06 - Offene Austauschformate des IT-Planungsrats.

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@cwicseolfor @hakfoo @futurebird @lnlyisol There was also the politics of it.

For a long time, Silicon Valley positioned itself as being the enlightened, socially-conscious, pro-freedom, pro-consumer alternative disrupting established cartels and vested interests.

Instead of believing what the old media barons tell you about the War in Iraq and Saddam's WMDs, our platforms let anyone be a publisher!

Instead of the RIAA's boy bands and lip syncing pop idols, we allow talented independent artists to be heard!

Instead of IBM, and later Microsoft, having a monopoly, buy our products instead! Think different! Don't be evil! It just works!

And then once everyone was locked into the walled gardens, the enshittification began.

Now.

What we really should have collectively been insisting on was a genuinely enlightened, socially-conscious, pro-freedom, pro-consumer alternative.

Member-owned, community-run non-profits. Creating open source software, based on open standards and protocols.

Where you own, and are free to repair, and are free to tweak or upgrade, your hardware. Which comes pre-installed with open source software from member-owned non-profits.

The Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation model works for encyclopaedias. So let's do that for search too.

And let's not leave the design of tech to just the computer science majors and MBAs. Let's get some social science and humanities folks in that design process too.

We can still do it.

But we need to start by recognising that tech, and who owns it, and who designs it, and who makes decisions about it, is a political issue.

We, the people, need to make those decisions. Not just the billionaire VCs and CEOs.

#OpenSource #FOSS #enshittification #Fediverse #OpenStandards #Linux #Wikimedia #deGoogle #Google #Meta #Facebook #Apple #Microsoft

"... the conversation transitioned gradually from 'we may hate this thing and this guy', but there is a bigger tension and mismatch between people's expectations and how the technology actually works that - independent of any bridge - we need to think through and figure out better."

#RyanBarrett, 2024

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"The "unique" selling point of the #OMN (Open Media Network) often gets lost because people focus too much on the technical side rather than the simple, fundamental idea at its core. The real value proposition, which might sound like "common sense," is quite radical in today's landscape: in the #OMN, both people and content are treated as data objects in the commons by default and are only private/owned by exception.
This might seem straightforward, but it's a powerful shift away from the dominant models we see today. Most current #dotcons, are built the other way around, where data, content, and even people are enclosed and owned by default, with access and openness as rare exceptions. The #OMN flips this on its head, embodying the #4opens#OpenData, #OpenSource, #OpenProcess, and #OpenStandards, to create a network where sharing and collaboration are the norm, not the exception."

opencollective.com/open-media-

opencollective.comThe #OMN is a framework for reclaiming our digital commons - Open-Media-NetworkThe "unique" selling point of the #OMN (Open Media Network) often gets lost because people focus too much on the technical side rather than the simple, fundamental idea at its core. The real value proposition, which might sound like "common...

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Participants help to create the program, a so called ‘unconference‘ & we want to show you more about the work we have done & the plans we have with Fediversity.eu We will also show a demo of our work, which is very much a ‘work-in-progress’.

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We look forward to meeting you!

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@ueeu I think crucial parts is looking at it's components, dependencies, size and for apps permissions.

#ReproduceableBuilds for example are important, so the actually released source code is what people actually get served as basis.

Plus in terms of #security, choose *real #E2EE with #SelfCustody of all the #Keys!