Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open Document Format – a fully standardised format […]
In 20 years then. All the custom-built software that is alteady 10 years out of date is built with Microsoft ptoducts as a hard requirement. Replacing that costs money. And if conservative governments hate one thing it’s spending money on something that won’t benefit their lobbyists.
good. can’t wait for places to send me an odf text document instead of word.
Or even better, PDF
thats what I send to places if they don’t dictate something first.
In 20 years then. All the custom-built software that is alteady 10 years out of date is built with Microsoft ptoducts as a hard requirement. Replacing that costs money. And if conservative governments hate one thing it’s spending money on something that won’t benefit their lobbyists.
It’s time to replace that old crap
Conservative government?
Absolutely