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   Topher 🌱🐧💚 (topher@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 09:34:52 JST Topher 🌱🐧💚

   • Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

   @jackivan88

   In fairness, the number of spreadsheet documents MS Excel has spontaneously irrecoverably corrupted on me vs. the number LibreOffice has are far from equal.

   If I had something critically important I needed to do and couldn't afford to lose or go wrong, I would still trust Excel over LibreOffice without even a moment of hesitation.

   This from a FOSS and Linux desktop user of many years.

   Maybe if we spent more attention to productivity apps, not changing GNOME UI...

   @lightweight

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     Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37a2@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 09:34:50 JST Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     • Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
     @lightweight
     
     ISO and ECMA were / are complicit in this.
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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 09:34:52 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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     @topher the problem is gov'ts giving MSFT a get-out-of-jail-free card by adopting OOXML as an 'open standard' (that MS controls unilaterally & allows for 'binary blobs' within it). As a result, it can continue to keep potential competitors at bay by tweaking/changing details that make the competing software (from the uniformly oblivious user-perspective at least) look 'less capable'. It's entirely insidious and quite deliberate. @jackivan88

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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 09:38:44 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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     • Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     @lnxw37a2 I know a fair bit about it. MSFT got its partners in every jurisdiction to join their national ISO committees just for that one vote. In effect, MSFT showed they could corrupt the global ISO process on a whim.

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