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Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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[–] ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

good!

Germany’s decision to anchor ODF at the heart of its national sovereign stack confirms what we have argued for years: open, vendor-neutral document formats are not a niche concern for some technology specialists and FOSS advocates. They are a fundamental infrastructure for democratic, interoperable and sovereign public administrations.

I'm gonna repeat this, as expressed here, to a few people

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

As a guy who worked with property recods in US fucking yes. Some states gove the records in a closed format invented by one company. So you have to have their software if you want to work in some states.
Add it to the pile of illegal shit that is legal I guess...