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Re:Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word ... by zzril on Sunday October 11, 2026 @01:13PM (#50045432)
I don't think the best path towards interoperability is to run after those who based their entire business model on making interoperability a problem in the first place.

If I were to create an office suite that cares for interoperability, it would be based on markdown and CSS, viewable in the terminal, one could `grep` and `sed` and `git diff` through it, LLMs could read and write it natively, ... But I'm afraid it'll take another 40 years until we're there.

Re:Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word ... by anthk on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:57PM (#50048281)
RTF exists.