Martin VogelIch bekomme in den letzten Tagen wiederholt Meldungen von Studierenden, bei denen eine herunterzuladende ODS-Datei fälschlicherweise als „beschädigt“ gemeldet wurde. Bisher hatten alle Meldenden versucht, die Datei mit Microsoft 365 zu öffnen. Nun trifft es auch die ersten LibreOffice-Anwendenden. Gab es neulich irgendein Windowsupdate, welches aus dem Internet heruntergeladene (nicht ausführbare) Dateien blockiert?
LibreOfficeA Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty
When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is that an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support.
OOXML — the format behind Microsoft’s docx, xlsx and pptx files — does not work this way.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/02/a-standard-in-name-only/
Italo VignoliA Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty
When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is that an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support.
OOXML — the format behind Microsoft’s docx, xlsx and pptx files — does not work this way.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/02/a-standard-in-name-only/
Joris (dwz)@Cambion Why would things ever change. Microsoft was always absent at the ODF Plugfests to test compatibility and compliance.
But in all fairness, they never managed to comply to the specs of the OOXML-format either. You know, the 'standard' they created themselves in response to #ODF.
(#opavertelt)
But in all fairness, they never managed to comply to the specs of the OOXML-format either. You know, the 'standard' they created themselves in response to #ODF.
(#opavertelt)
brume ⏚ 🤔 ⛵ 🐧 ☮️ 🇵🇸 🍉La suite bureautique souveraine Euro-Office fixe sa date de sortie officielle
https://goodtech.info/euro-office-sortie-version-stable-alternative-open-source-microsoft/
« La prochaine étape sera de se concentrer sur les applications de bureau et mobiles. Pour garantir une solution 100 % souveraine, le support complet des formats standards ouverts comme l’#ODF sera au sommet des priorités de la prochaine version. »
Microsoft Knew It
A 2004 document which provides some interesting background to the OOXML story.
Captain it's Wednesday - Folge 181 - #Gemischter #Satz -
Folge 181 des #CIW #Podcasts. #Deutsche_Bahn, #Mythos, #Joplin #AI, #ODF
Software libero LiguriaIl progetto FUSS, LibreOffice e il formato ODF
Incontro informativo organizzato dalla rete Software Libero Liguria – nell’ambito della campagna per la libertà e la sovranità digitale europea – con la partecipazione di rappresentanti del Comune di Genova e della Regione Liguria.
A disposizione le slide e le registrazioni video degli interventi di Paolo Dongilli e Italo Vignoli.
https://softwareliberoliguria.org/il-progetto-fuss-libreoffice-e-il-formato-odf/
#formatoODF #sovranitadigitale #fuss #libreoffice #odf #softwarelibero
ODF vs OOXML, an issue that should never have existed
Whenever we address the contrast between ODF and OOXML, some people perceive it as a campaign against a company. It is not. We are trying to do something far more useful: to make the structural problem with the standard document format clear to those who have to live with it: public officials, educators, and above all, individual citizens.
Björn Schießle 
Excel has a thing for getting dates wrong (the (in)famous 1900 leap-year bug, inherited from Lotus 1-2-3 and never fixed), and when Excel gets dates wrong, no other software does it worse. [..] The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee was forced in 2020 to rename dozens of human genes – including SEPT1 and MARCH1 – because Excel kept silently converting their symbols to dates. Rather than going to Microsoft and demanding a bug fix, scientists preferred to throw years of established nomenclature down the drain to avoid upsetting Redmond
I really like these two examples, not because of the issues as such, but as two examples of how people usually handle bugs in proprietary software: ignore them or work around them, but almost never complain about the software.
MS Office is always mentioned as the standard, and everything has to be as good as MS Office if people consider different solutions. But in the end, it's not because MS is so much better. People are just used to it and how to work around strange issues that they would never accept in a Free Software solution.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/15/no-digital-sovereignty-without-odf/
There is no digital sovereignty without ODF - TDF Community Blog
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