Re:Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice
by davidy123 on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:23AM
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They are de facto standards as an application. As data formats, governments and large companies required them to become available under formal standards. After doing a lot of outright sleazy things, Office format (which is basically xml files wrapped in a zip file) is now a formal standard. When companies like Microsoft step around interoperability, they should be severely chastized and then punished, which apparently only governments and large companies have the wherewithal to do.
Re:Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice
by littlestymaar on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:34AM
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I wouldn't compare Oracle and Office: office is a monopoly, with LibreOffice being David against Goliath. Oracle is big, but it's not at all a standard, it's one of the players of database market, which is quite competitive: there are open source alternatives(MySQL and postgres) which are widely used (not like LibreOffice), and also big corporate players (DB2 and SQLServer).
Re:Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice
by cobbzilla on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:11AM
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I’m flattered to have such notions of youth imputed upon me :)
Re:Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice
by edoceo on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:17AM
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One must not give up the fight against closed-source monopoly.
Re:Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice
by slantyyz on Monday November 25, 2019 @01:48PM
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Oracle is a bit of a reach, imo.
Oracle's definitely a standard in companies of a certain size and pedigree, but it's not even remotely as ubiquitous as Office, which is both a business and consumer product.
Oracle and Microsoft Office are global standards. The world uses them. Our civilization relies on them. If alternatives such as PostgreSQL and LibreOffice are not 100% compatible with these standards, they are lacking in functionality.