An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement
10 hours ago
- #Document Formats
- #Digital Sovereignty
- #Open Source Office Suites
- The first open-source office suite developed in Europe was OpenOffice.org in 2001, followed by LibreOffice in 2010.
- Euro-Office is incorrectly marketed as the first; it is not built on genuinely open-source code like LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org.
- Digital Sovereignty in Europe is attributed to The Document Foundation and LibreOffice, who championed open standards like ODF.
- Euro-Office uses Microsoft's proprietary OOXML format, which undermines Digital Sovereignty by maintaining content lock-in.
- The promotion of Euro-Office inadvertently supports Microsoft's strategy against European user freedom and content control.