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I can't wait for open source file standards to eclipse the proprietary microslopX formats. I hope adobe is being challenged with this for PDFs too.
It was nice to have a single standard that everyone used until they started to really enshittify it. Will be real interesting to see how multinational companies handle file formats moving forward. If you do substantial business with europe then using these products is the only way to have true 1:1 compatibility, but if you do substantial business with the US the reverse is also true... except it costs nothing to load the europe open standard software, and it costs a fucking fortune to pay for microslop or heaven forbid try and leave their ecosystem. Google enterprise apps are no better. Everybody keeps trying to lock shit up so that nobody can compete.
Another thing I hope they target is hypervisors / VMs. Vmware, ahv and Hyper-V are really the only options in enterprise today and almost everyone is still on vmware but quickly fleeing after the broadcom purchase and subsequent highway robbery. I want to see broadcom burn to the ground, but nutanix is just as bad with the attempted lock-in. I use proxmox but i'm not about to start using that for prod use cases at work- but if the EU wants to pick it up and transform it into something a bit more enterprise grade i'd be thrilled - or some other free and open alternative.
Also looking for a third choice for smartphones without google or apple tendrils in it that will be compatible, and this seems more possible than ever to come to fruition despite ongoing attempts by google to lock down their ecosystem.
Any word on whether it’ll actually write ODF, even if not as default? IIRC OnlyOffice doesn’t write ODF
Yeah, looks like my Ubuntu copy of OnlyOffice only writes ODT or OTT, not ODF.
ODF is the name of the formats not the extension.
.ODF is listed as an extension for "formulae, mathematical equations" on that Wikipedia page.
People tend to mix ODT with ODF so I jumped to a conclusion, sorry about that.
OnlyOffice indeed doesn't support
.ODFbecause it doesn't natively support any open document format and convert from MS formats to open formats (learned this today actually) and since MS Office doesn't have a math format like LibreOffice it's expected that OnlyOffice doesn't support.ODFat all. It's quite interesting. I didn't know that LibreOffice and OnlyOffice are fundamentally different like this.