Comment on ISO 26300

TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Embrace, extend, extinguish.

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• Puttaneska@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Isn’t it open? It works with Dropbox and macOS Numbers opens .docx and saves as .docx.

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  • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So does LibreOffice, but they’ve been called out multiple times for purposefully making the format overly complex to make it as hard as possible to reliable read and write to it.

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    • stratoscaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I genuinely think they’re just incompetent lol

      You should see the windows xp source code

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      • Evkob@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You should see the windows xp source code

        The rapidly dwindling sanity of windows programmers as expressed through code comments

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      • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        be careful with tainting yourself with proprietary crap though

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes, it technically is a standard, but because it’s an ISO standard you have to pay for I wouldn’t call it open. www.iso.org/standard/71691.html but people have different definitions of what an open standard is and I’m not trying to critique them.

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