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Why a digital document is a piece of software, and what that means for your freedom
Most people think of a digital document the way they think of a sheet of paper: an object that holds words and pictures, indifferent to the tool used to open it. This intuition is wrong, and the consequences shape everything from vendor lock-in to cybersecurity to the long-term readability of public records.
A digital document is a piece of software.
There is 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.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/15/no-digital-sovereignty-without-odf/
🚀 It’s time to come together for the Fedora Linux 44 Virtual Release Party this Friday, April 24! 🚀
The Fedora Linux 44 Release Party is a virtual event where contributors, users, and friends of Fedora gather to celebrate, share updates, and highlight the work happening across the project.
While our release engineering team and packagers are finalizing F44, we’ll be celebrating slightly ahead of the final release 🎉
Join us on Matrix:
👉 https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-linux-44-release-party/
The Document Foundation was created in 2010 with a single, non-negotiable premise: that a free, fully-featured office suite, built on open standards and governed in the public interest, is infrastructure for democracy. Not a product. Not a market position. Infrastructure, the kind that belongs to everyone and can be taken from no one. Sixteen years later, that premise is under pressure. And it is worth stating clearly, on the record, what TDF is, what it has done, what it is doing, and why the decisions it has made – including the difficult ones – follow directly from the founding commitment rather than betraying it. What a Foundation Is For Our foundation, like many others, exists to hold something in trust. Not for its current contributors, not for its most prolific developers and not for the companies that build products on top of its work, but for the public, across time. That is not a bureaucratic abstraction. It is a legal and ethical obligation that governs every decision the Board of Directors makes. In Germany, where TDF is registered, such obligations are enforced by law. A gemeinnützige Stiftung – a foundation with charitable status – operates under strict rules designed to
The Fedora Podcast returns with a look at the upcoming Flock to Fedora conference! Join Emma and Justin and our hosts as we talk about the history, the location, and some hidden Easter eggs to look forward to at our annual contributor conference!
Q&A about Media Articles and Forum Comments
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/10/qa-about-media-articles-and-forum-comments/
Ideally, we would have preferred to avoid this post. However, the articles and comments published in response to Collabora’s and Michael Meeks’ biased posts compel us to provide this background information on the events that led to the current situation.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/05/lets-put-an-end-to-the-speculation/
Ideally, we would have preferred to avoid this post. However, the articles and comments published in response to Collabora’s and Michael Meeks’ biased posts compel us to provide this background information on the events that led to the current situation. Unfortunately, we have to start from the very beginning, but we’ll try to keep it brief. The launch of the LibreOffice project and The Document Foundation was handled with great enthusiasm by the founding group. They were driven by a noble goal, but also by a bit of healthy recklessness. After all, it was impossible to imagine what would happen after September 28, 2010, the date of the announcement. At the time, nobody could imagine that the companies that had supported OpenOffice.org until then like IBM would create Apache OpenOffice to kill LibreOffice. Also, if the project were to be successful, it would require resources greater than those available, and above all, a deep management experience. Fortunately, the project grew quite rapidly. However, the founders’ different backgrounds and opinions were at the same time the reason for some bold decisions – many of which right – as well as a few mistakes, which are the root cause of some of
This milestone belongs to our community. 🤝
100,000 CrowdSec Console users sharing signals, stopping attacks, and proving that security works better together.
Thank you for being part of the journey 💜
Is it cool that Linus Torvalds uses Fedora Linux? Yes!
But the really cool thing is to use the Linux distro that works best for you. :)
Having Linux get covered on LTT is such a big win for the open source community as more techies realize there is another way!
➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA
But it is pretty neat tho what Linus uses 😎
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