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Euro-Office: sovereign in name only, or in reality too? - TDF Community Blog

The announcement of the Euro-Office is welcome news. The coalition is credible, the governance is sound and the timing is perfect. Europe needs office software, and The Document Foundation is delighted to see such significant players allocating resources to make it happen. However, we have a question. It is not meant to be hostile, but it is the only question that matters. What is the native document format of Euro-Office? The press release promises full compatibility with Microsoft formats. We are well aware of the logic behind migration: organisations moving away from Microsoft need to be certain that their documents will survive the transition. But “full compatibility with Microsoft formats” is certainly not a definition of sovereignty, but rather the definition of a different kind of dependency. OOXML is a format designed, controlled and managed solely by Microsoft. Building a European office suite prioritising compatibility with OOXML means ensuring that the European document infrastructure remains subordinate to architectural decisions made in Redmond. The hosting moves to Europe, but the lock-in remains in Redmond. The alternative exists, is mature and is a law in several European jurisdictions. ODF, the Open Document Format, is an ISO standard developed through an open and

TDF Community Blog

Quietly slipped in today: the XSF has published a new XEP - XEP-0512 - which I had the pleasure of authoring.

It's a small step, but one that opens up some interesting directions for #XMPP implementations. Curious to see where people take it from here.

Details: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0512.html

XEP-0512: XMPP as Interpretive Dance

I just witnessed someone setting up a windows 11 laptop.
How can people tolerate so much bullshit and dark patterns?

Kein Co-Working-Space, keine virtuelle Kanzlei: BGH verlangt dauerhaften eigenen Raum

BGH, Urteil vom 01.12.2025, AnwZ (Brfg) 50/24

https://rsw.beck.de/aktuell/daily/meldung/detail/bgh-AnwZ-Brfg-50-24-anwalt-dauerhafter-eigener-raum-keine-virtuelle-kanzlei-kein-co-working-space-

Kein Co-Working-Space, keine virtuelle Kanzlei: BGH verlangt dauerhaften eigenen Raum

+++ Breaking+++: Nach Ansicht des BGH brauchen Anwälte auch Ende 2025 noch dauerhaft einen eigenen Kanzleiraum. Das Jahr 1998 hätte gern sein Berufsrecht zurück (Gastbeitrag).

Aktuell

Dutzende Menschen haben heute zurecht beim Gala-Auftritt von Bundeskanzler #Merz aus Protest den Saal verlassen.

Was für ein Affront ggü Publikum & den Ausgezeichneten,
wenn ausgerechnet derjenige, der von "Sozialtouristen" über "kleine Paschas" bis "Stadtbild" & Beleidigung Brasiliens non stop Spaltung & rassistische Dogwhistles betreibt,

als Schirmherr der "Deutschlandstiftung Integration" und Festredner des "Talisman-Preises für gesellschaftlichen
Zusammenhalt" auftritt.

Stepping down as Framework Linux Community Ambassadors

We are Tommi and Fraxinas, Framework Linux Community Ambassadors since September 2024.

We apprehensively followed the developments and the debate concerning Framework’s endorsement and support of Omarchy. We have no direct experience with this Linux distribution, its community, nor with the political environment around it. We did not speak up before now because learning about all of it and keeping up with all the commentary would have been a full-time job. Unfortunately we do not have the time to read every single comment on the dedicated forum thread.

Despite our admittedly limited and superficial understanding of this matter, we believe we have witnessed and read enough to make an informed decision and take a clear position.

The statements from Framework and from Nirav Patel (its CEO) made it very clear for us that Framework is not a company we feel represented by any more, and surely not a company that we want to represent as Ambassadors.

To be frank, it is not even necessary to dive into the petty drama about the recent events in order to provide an explanation of our decision. We are deeply disappointed by a company that is self-proclaimed as the resistance of the tech industry, the good David that intends to stand against the big tech Goliaths that are devouring it. Framework’s behaviour brought to surface an embarrassing and absurd inability to take an explicitly political position, blinded by the Western patriarchal narrative that technology in itself is not political. By trying to keep everyone happy (or at least not to make anyone mad) inside a fictitious “big tent”, the company proved to be no better than any of its Silicon Valley peers, dismissing comments about DHH, and comments about fascism and racism as not strictly related to the main mission.

We were proud to be ambassadors because we believed that Framework not only made products that empowered those who purchase them to fully own and repair their devices, but most importantly because we wrongly expected that this would imply changing the paradigm and the narrative about tech companies altogether.

We were offered the possibility of having a 1:1 conversation with Nirav Patel. We did not take it, because it is self-evident that our opinions are in contrast with the statements that he already made. Too bad, Framework is going to lose much more business than it would have if it simply acknowledged a mistake, took a deep inward look, and questioned its own values and stance.

In a world that is burning, thorn by conflict and greed, it is not enough to be “less evil”, to be radical only in some cases, and be moderate in others. We wanted to be ambassadors of a company that does not see fascism and proprietary software as two distant topics, but that recognised the entanglement of politics and technology, of capitalism and authoritarianism. It seems that this is not the case.

Farewell, Framework. We will miss the shining brave idea we had of you.

@tommi and @fraxinas

The following statement was cross-posted on Framework’s Community Forum.

#Framework #politicalTechnology #SiliconValley #CalifornianIdeology

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@tagesschau Der Verfolgungswahn der Konservativen ist angesichts der Tatsache, dass der größte Schaden durch Steuerhinterziehung entsteht, nur mit Projektion zu erklären.

#FFF — Fascho-Freies Fernsehen. Das ist das Mindeste, was ich für meine Gebühren verlange, liebe Redaktionen.

Was liefert ihr heute (Auszug):

ZDF Spezial: Chrupalla, unwidersprochen und ohne Einordnung
Brennpunkt: Chrupalla, unwidersprochen und ohne Einordnung
Tagesthemen: von Storch, wohl auch ohne klare Abgrenzung.

#ARD #ZDF

An email I received left me speechless. Obviously, they don't respect my creative choices. I will not 'fix' this panel under any circumstances.
Demos im ganzen Land. Keine kleinen, RIESIGE! Und wer sitzt wieder in Talksendungen? Nicht etwa primär Vertreterinnen von Bündnissen, etc... sondern die Leute, gegen die sich der Protest richtet. Find ich gelinde gesagt suboptimal. Vor allem im Vergleich zu diversen Debatten der letzten Jahre...