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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 19 points 1 hour 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 1 points 24 minutes 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...

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago

Hell yes. I wonder how many man-hours of strategy meetings MS had on their calendars to fend that decision off.

[–] wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 14 points 2 hours ago

Based

[–] fluxx@mander.xyz 12 points 2 hours ago

Wow, some good news on Lemmy? Sign me up!

[–] Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 36 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully the rest of Europe will follow.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 42 minutes ago

Despite being so shit in many different respects (a chronic use of external consultants and contractors means the UK seems less likely than other European countries to make progress on a sovereign tech stack), the UK is pretty good with its data. There's a surprisingly amount of data that's released and is in a sensible format.

During the teachers strikes last year, I ended up using playing around making visualisations using the data about the number of teachers in various parts of the country, and I was pleased to see how much there was there and how clearly it was documented. There are very few things I'm proud of the UK for, so I am glad to have this as one