LibreOffice9h ago
Dear Europe: Germany has shown the way forward, by making the Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory within its sovereign digital infrastructure. Now it's time for other countries to do the same! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/23/dear-europe/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware #openstandards
Show threadDiogo Constantino

@libreoffice This has been the truth in multiple countries for some time, including in Portugal, but the governments don't always follow their own mandates for themselves. In Portugal @ansol monitors violation of this type of mandate for government institutions:

https://ansol.org/iniciativas/monitorizacao-rnid/

Monitorização do RNID | ANSOL - Associação Nacional para o Software Livre

O Regulamento Nacional de Interoperabilidade Digital, publicado como uma Resolução do Conselho de Ministros na sequência da lei 36/2011, deveria ter sido actualizado em 2015, mas a publicação da sua revisão só ocorreu em 2018, e está disponível no Diário da República.

ANSOL - Associação Nacional para o Software Livre
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Show threadDiogo Constantino9h ago
@libreoffice @ansol https://rnid.ansol.org/
RNID

Lista de casos de incumprimento do RNID

RNID
Show threadholzdiebimeinsatz6h ago
@DiogoConstantino @libreoffice @ansol That works fine until Microsoft shows up at the top executives' offices with black briefcases in hand and disappears without ever coming back out.
Show threadholzdiebimeinsatz6h ago

@DiogoConstantino @libreoffice @ansol We’ve seen it happen here in Germany—in Munich, to be exact. For 13 years, the city government had relied on Linux. For 13 years, apart from a few minor issues, there were no complaints. Then a new mayor came along, along with Microsoft and a big black briefcase, promising to move the company’s German headquarters to Munich if the city switched to Windows.

Well, what can I say? Munich is once again in the hands of the rip-off artists from Redmond.