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"Euro-Office defaults to the fully proprietary OOXML document format, developed and controlled solely by Microsoft. This makes it a de facto ally of Microsoft in its content lock-in strategy, with control remaining firmly in Redmond and far from Europe."
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-letter/#EuroOffice #FOSS #libreoffice #OOXML #standards #documents #Microsoft
An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement - TDF Community Blog
Dear office suite users, In recent days you will have read various articles announcing the arrival of Euro-Office, which is being âmarketedâ as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe. We feel compelled â reluctantly, since open source should rest on transparency, not deception â to correct this claim. The first open-source office suite developed in Europe was OpenOffice.org in 2001, based on StarOfficeâs source code, followed by LibreOffice from 2010. These are two genuine open-source office suites, built from source code that originated in Europe. They are not a freeware clone of MS Office whose code provenance is undisclosed, nor a product that has rebranded itself out of pure opportunism to ride todayâs wave of Digital Sovereignty. It is worth remembering that many of those who champion Digital Sovereignty today were silent back in 2006, when the open ISO/IEC ODF standard â the pillar of Digital Sovereignty â was announced: not only did they not listen to us during all these years, but in some cases they greeted us with a condescending smile. If we can speak of Digital Sovereignty in Europe today, it is thanks to The Document Foundation and LibreOffice community members at large, who kept
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/05/donald-trump-lawyers-refuse-reveal-financial-information-bbc-defamation-case. Of course they do. "Filings in May showed Trumpâs
#legal team had made 503 requests for
#documents, & the
#BBC had turned over 45,000 pages in return.
#Trump had produced none." Just a weeny bit one-sided, yes?
Trump lawyers refuse to reveal financial information to BBC in defamation case
Request for evidence to support claims of reputational and financial harm from Panorama documentary dismissed as âfishing expeditionâ
What text messages reveal about the collapse of the province's case against Victoria's school trustees
All Greater Victoria School Board trustees were reinstated last week after the province's late disclosure of court-ordered documents, which included text messages involving a senior ministry official.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-reinstated-sd61-victoria-school-board-trustees-reinstated-text-messages-9.7215318?cmp=rssNew documents show potential pipeline routes from Alberta to B.C.âs coast
"My takeaway, looking at all of them, was that it was going further north than Northern Gateway and a lot of terminuses in Nisga'a territory," Heather Exner-Pirot said.
#Politics #AlbertaBCpipelinedispute #bcpipeline https://globalnews.ca/news/11877134/new-documents-potential-pipeline-routes-alberta-bc-coast/New documents show potential pipeline routes from Alberta to B.C.âs coast
"My takeaway, looking at all of them, was that it was going further north than Northern Gateway and a lot of terminuses in Nisga'a territory," Heather Exner-Pirot said.
#Politics #AlbertaBCpipelinedispute #bcpipeline https://globalnews.ca/news/11877134/new-documents-potential-pipeline-routes-alberta-bc-coast/New documents show potential pipeline routes from Alberta to B.C.âs coast
"My takeaway, looking at all of them, was that it was going further north than Northern Gateway and a lot of terminuses in Nisga'a territory," Heather Exner-Pirot said.
#Politics #AlbertaBCpipelinedispute #bcpipeline https://globalnews.ca/news/11877134/new-documents-potential-pipeline-routes-alberta-bc-coast/Ford government is in secrecy-by-default mode, critics say after blue licence plate documents released
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is in secrecy-by-default mode, opposition critics say after reviewing the content of blue licence plate documents the province had been prepared to fight the release of in the courts.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-government-blue-licence-plate-documents-9.7217406?cmp=rssFord government is in secrecy-by-default mode, critics say after blue licence plate documents released
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is in secrecy-by-default mode, opposition critics say after reviewing the content of blue licence plate documents the province had been prepared to fight the release of in the courts.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-government-blue-licence-plate-documents-9.7217406?cmp=rss
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