☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agoSending a message: Beijing issues documents without Word format amid US tensionswww.scmp.comexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareJeena@piefed.jeena.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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-squareGraveyardOrbit@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoI don’t think china cares about open standards, harder to backdoor and surveil
minus-squareTenderizer78@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoWord can open ODT. They’re trying to spite Microsoft Office, and using a format like ODT doesn’t do that as well.
minus-squarelimer@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month 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.
I don’t think china cares about open standards, harder to backdoor and surveil
Word can open ODT. They’re trying to spite Microsoft Office, and using a format like ODT doesn’t do that as well.
Wps opens and saves all Microsoft formats but Microsoft has ignored wps