I've just listened to a video blog from @heiseonline on alternative #office applications. Quite interesting, though not news for me personally.
While the everybody talks (for good reason) about compatibility with #MsOffice, I'm always missing the equally impotant aspect of compatibility with #ODF (as native with #LibreOffice and others). Especially as it's the mandated standard format for collaboration within several jurisdictions.
📄 Digitální suverenita začíná u formátu dokumentu.
✅️ Používáš otevřený standard (#ODF)? Máš kontrolu.
❌️ Používáš proprietární formát? Kontrolu má vendor.
Bez ODF není skutečná digitální suverenita – jen iluze.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/15/no-digital-sovereignty-without-odf/
Any other choice is a choice of dependence on a single vendor Digital sovereignty begins with the document format. Everything else – server location, hosting jurisdiction, procurement clauses – is downstream of this single decision. If the format is standard and open, the user controls the document. If the format is proprietary the vendor controls it, even when the file sits on the user’s own hard drive. This is why LibreOffice, and its derivatives such as Collabora Office and Online, are today the only legitimate choice for governments, supranational bodies, businesses and organisations that want to protect the digital freedom of their users. Only software based on the LibreOffice source code – the LibreOffice Technology – uses ODF as its native document format. Every document saved, stored, retained and exchanged in ODF remains the exclusive property of its author, and remains so over the years. ODF – Open Document Format, as the name says – was designed and developed in accordance with the characteristics of a true open standard: clearly documented, transparently developed by an independent body, properly versioned, built on existing standards, and stored in XML files that any user can read. None of this applies to OOXML. The
Wikipedia has a pretty good list showing all media file formats, their history, and which are proprietary, or open source. The Open Document is on there (ODF), but it's just one of many formats, that together, establish the foundation for Digital Sovereignty.
@nextcloud When projects focus first on compatibility with proprietary standards, they legitimize those standards at the expense of BETTER open standards.
If Digital Sovereignty is truly the goal, then effective implementation of ODF (and others) should be the primary focus.
@nextcloud It is imperative to make open file formats (and standards) work BETTER than proprietary options, which I think is very possible. Whether it's ODF, or another open file format.
@nextcloud I would ask... If you support Digital Sovereignty, will you focus first on compatability with open file formats like ODF, before supporting other proprietary file formats?
ODF cumple 20 años: el estándar abierto que los gobiernos finalmente están adoptando 📊🗂️ #ODF #OpenDocument #Ofimática 🐧 #uiolibre
Lange hat es gedauert, kann man sich anschauen um weitere Infos zum #TDF #Libreoffice #Collabora Steit zu bekommen. Leider Themenmäßig nicht gut aufbereitet und viel blabla. Kann auch sein dass dieses Format dafür nicht geeignet ist, weil zu komplex und verworren sowas ist.
#heiseonline #ctuplink
#Libreoffice #Office #ODF #OpenOffice #Opensource #WebOffice #Streit
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQlLpYl2D4E&t=221
20 Jahre Open Document Format
Der Dateistandard ODF ist herstellerneutral und kann unter einer freien Lizenz genutzt werden. In Bezug auf digitale Souveränität gibt es viele Argumente, die für das Format sprechen. Allerdings wird auch Kritik daran geäussert.
#ODF #Open_Document_Format #LibreOffice #Document_Foundation #Linux
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