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Re: Surprise, Surprise. Micro$oft Makes Formats Complicated To Exclude LibreOffice

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Lester Thorpe <lt@gnu.rocks> wrote at 10:23 this Saturday (GMT):
> As should be no surprise to anyone, Micro$lop is making
> its files formats unnecessarily complex to thwart LibreOffice
> and other competitors:
>
><https://www.neowin.net/news/libreoffice-calls-out-microsoft-for-using-complex-file-formats-to-lock-in-office-users/>
>
> However, LibreOffice should not be considered blameless for
> they, too, are limiting their development toward supporting
> only the mainstream DEs, i.e. GNOME and KDE.  If fact, if one
> has a problem with LO that manifests in some other window
> manager or environment the LO dev's will literally tell you
> that the problem will not be addressed due to its "fringe"
> nature.
>
> We all have told Micro$lop to kiss off but we may soon be doing
> the same to LibreOffice.


Embrace, Extend, Extinguish... All of the .docX files are annoying to
deal with without using LO or similar, and its infuriating they won't
just add to the formats everyone else uses, or at LEAST make them
backwards compatible (ie UTF-8).
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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