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LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances

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by _fat_santa

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> This is not a minor procedural oversight. It is a structural bias built into the process which sends out a clear message: full participation in EU policymaking requires a Microsoft licence.
Im gonna be honest it sounds more like a procedural oversight.

by danmaz74

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by whirlwin

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This is likely a matter of poor competence by the author of the spreadsheet, and an oversight after all.
From my experience, unfortunately, people who manage policies are much less competent that those who implement them.

by KronisLV

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This might seem quite pedantic but I like the fact that they’re calling stuff like that out - over here office documents are more or less synonymous with MS Office, despite me having used LibreOffice for years with no significant issues (aside from their bibliography being broken while writing my thesis, super annoying but I found a workaround).
I’ve never actually had anyone complain about me sending them ODT or ODS files since even the said MS Office doesn’t have a big issue with those.
Oddly enough, if you ever also see a CSV, LibreOffice Calc will give you a nice import dialog whereas by default MS Excel will happily open it wrong and fuck everything up for you.
Edit: oh wait there was a case in university where I did a presentation in front of like 60 people and it referenced fonts that weren’t on the other machine and they didn’t get embedded in the presentation file. It fucked up all of the font layouts. Since, I do presentations in PDFs (the archival kind). Except recently I also wrote my own presentation tool that outputs HTML pages and can also serve everything from a folder, or I might just put them on my server. I think I reinvented worse Google Docs.

by jfengel

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by zoobab

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If i have one regret over the OOXML corruption scandal was to not bring the whole thing to court. We had some many evidences of Microsoft captureing the whole process.

by dchest

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I just downloaded the ODS version and it comes with .pdf extension, had to rename it. It also uses Aptos Narrow font (from MS Office), which gets substituted.

by pluc

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by Spivak

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I mean it's a small thing but this seems like the bureaucracy equivalent of seeing your friend get up for a smoke break out of habit and reminding them that they're trying to quit.

by aaron695

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by Pxtl

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It's frustrating how we're still fighting over this stuff when 99% of documents and spreadsheets (the data, not the formulas) could be zipped html except if not that spreadsheet editors and document editors don't have a standardized subset of html to support.