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Re:EDPS: European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 infringe... by Spooky23 on Monday March 11, 2024 @12:01PM (#39669824)
I’ve worked in public sector in various capacities forever. Nobody cares about in-process work products, even within organizations. They usually aren’t subject to FOIA or similar and only apply in limited circumstances.

Every employee with a reasonably recent office suite can produce a high quality PDF of whatever they are producing.

I actually have done such things. It’s not that bad - the process of review is the painful part.

Nobody has the skillsets to manage latex source code in a collaborative environment. I actually did a pilot a few years ago with Markdown and GitHub to collaborate on a large report for a multi-organization project. We quickly abandoned it for Word/Sharepoint and it worked fine.

The only practical exceptions I can think of are typesetting for publishing and bill drafting. Both are narrow use cases with specialized staff and tools. I definitely see where having a system output LaTeX could be useful for those use cases. But not the the collaborative aspects.

Re:EDPS: European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 infringe... by brnt on Monday March 11, 2024 @03:04PM (#39672100)
'out' sharepoint does nothing for chance resolution, therefore concurrent editing is always problematic. Can you explain how you tackled this? This is a huge problem for us, but maybe I should ask someone yo enable something on the SharePoint share?