Pandoc: a workhorse for document conversion

Pandoc is a document-conversion program that can translate among a myriad of formats, includin [...]

Allemagne : le format ODF obligatoire dans l’administration - ZDNET

The Document Foundation, qui gère LibreOffice, salue la décision du ministère allemand du Numérique, qui impose le format ODF dans l’administration fédérale, refusant ainsi le contesté OOXML de Microsoft.

Germany's Sovereign Digital Stack Mandates ODF: a Landmark Validation of Open Document Standards - TDF Community Blog

The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, welcomes the inclusion of the Open Document Format (ODF) as a mandated standard format in Germany’s Deutschland-Stack, the federal government’s sovereign digital infrastructure framework for all public administrations. The Stack, published by the German Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung), establishes the technical standards for a shared, interoperable and sovereign digital infrastructure serving all Germany’s public administrations. Under the framework’s “Semantic Technologies and Real-Time Analytics” pillar, ODF and PDF/UA are explicitly named as the two mandated document formats, to the exclusion of proprietary alternatives. “This is not a recommendation or a preference, it is a mandate,” said Florian Effenberger, Executive Director of The Document Foundation. “Germany’s decision to anchor ODF at the heart of its national sovereign stack confirms what we have argued for years: open, vendor-neutral document formats are not a niche concern for some technology specialists and FOSS advocates. They are a fundamental infrastructure for democratic, interoperable and sovereign public administrations.” The Deutschland-Stack is grounded in a set of principles that align with TDF’s long-standing advocacy positions. The framework adopts a “Made in EU first” principle, requires open interfaces and local data storage,

"Open source de façade" : LibreOffice s'en prend à OnlyOffice après sa "collaboration" avec Microsoft

Vous pensiez avoir trouvé une alternative sérieuse à Microsoft Office ? The Document Foundation vient de lancer une bombe dans le camp des suites bureautiques libres. Et la cible, c'est OnlyOffice.

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LibreOffice accuse Microsoft de tricher avec un nouveau format de fichier inutilisable

La fondation derrière la suite bureautique libre réitère ses critiques à l'encontre du format OOXML de Microsoft, qu'elle juge structurellement incompatible avec les principes d'un standard ouvert.