The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies.
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The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
@libreoffice Interestingly in UK HMRC want submissions from small charities claiming Gift Aid in ODF format and supply a spreadsheet to make claims on and require users to submit these claims saved in ODF not.xlsx
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@libreoffice all #OOXML foemats are garbage, because NOONE can in good faith support a 6.000+ pages spec that is laced with proprietary garbage, bugs and patents.
- Either @EUCommission mandates truly #OpenStandards like #OpenDocument or it might just give up…
- I expect #Zensursula to choose the latter!
@kkarhan @libreoffice @EUCommission I have no faith in the @EUCommission knowing what they are doing at all. Whatever they mandate causes utter chaos because they are too busy kicking the shit out of the compliant
- Either @EUCommission mandates truly #OpenStandards like #OpenDocument or it might just give up…
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The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
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The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
@libreoffice can you please support new HWP documents? You only support older HWP97 documents, but the new korean office suite is a giant PITA when you have to deal with that country
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The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
@libreoffice wow, thought they'd have a web-form, not "send us a file"
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The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
@libreoffice Shouldn't all software, open source or proprietary, be able to exchange/interchange files?
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The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
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Governments do not understand computers at all, just only as users. They have no knowledge except to push a button and hope for the best. -
The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
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bbbut... Office Open XML is open, right? It says so right there, and there's even a standard for it 🥺 -
The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
@libreoffice typical @EUCommission clownery. Just talking the talk instead of walking the walk.
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The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
@libreoffice isn't the xlsx format founded in the Open Document format?? Didn't Micro$oft go with the Open Document Foundation format standards si their tools would both save and open all, their proprietary and the foss file formats?
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The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
@libreoffice I strongly agree. But the instructions are too unclear for me. Please provide simpler steps for us who wish to support you in this.
I can't very well send a message signed the board of directors...
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@libreoffice isn't the xlsx format founded in the Open Document format?? Didn't Micro$oft go with the Open Document Foundation format standards si their tools would both save and open all, their proprietary and the foss file formats?
@polmalvinas Hi! No, .xlsx isn't part of the Open Document Format, and there is no such thing as the Open Document Foundation. (There is The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice). Microsoft Office/365 does support ODF though – if only they used it by default. Hope that clears it up!
