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Topher 🌱🐧💚

@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

@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

@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.

The NZ ISO body voted against OOXML because they could see what was happening & realised what MSFT were trying to do. Sadly, other ISO orgs around the world failed to recognise the situation or do anything about it.

It's a grim demo of corporate power over nat'l sovereignty.