☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 16 hours agoSending a message: Beijing issues documents without Word format amid US tensionswww.scmp.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down13
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minus-squareJeena@piefed.jeena.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·16 hours ago For the first time, China’s Ministry of Commerce issued policy announcements in documents only accessible via domestic software last week There was a possibility to start sharing in a open format so everyone can read it. But they chose to use one even more closed then Microsofts format.
minus-squareTenderizer78@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 hours agoWord can open ODT. They’re trying to spite Microsoft Office, and using a format like ODT doesn’t do that as well.
minus-squareGraveyardOrbit@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·12 hours agoI don’t think china cares about open standards, harder to backdoor and surveil
minus-squarelimer@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·12 hours agoWps opens and saves all Microsoft formats but Microsoft has ignored wps
There was a possibility to start sharing in a open format so everyone can read it. But they chose to use one even more closed then Microsofts format.
Word can open ODT. They’re trying to spite Microsoft Office, and using a format like ODT doesn’t do that as well.
I don’t think china cares about open standards, harder to backdoor and surveil
Wps opens and saves all Microsoft formats but Microsoft has ignored wps