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Re:Schools should be using open source software by jahewson on Monday May 30, 2022 @05:05PM (#31563624)
What I’m trying to say is that when we say “file format” for anything non-trivial we really mean “semantic model”, the encoded representation of that isn’t so important.

There’s nothing bad about architecting software around ODF (it came first, after all) but it inevitably will lead to incompatibilities with OOXML. Likewise for the inverse. I wouldn’t call these quirks as much as an impedance mismatch.

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Re:Schools should be using open source software by KronisLV on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @02:04AM (#31566556)
But that's the thing.

LibreOffice works okay with OpenDocument formats.

Word works okay with Office Open XML formats.

The problems start when you have any program that tries working with a different format than the one that it was initially written for, due to all of the complexity.

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