The Document Foundation welcomes Euro-Office's open standards pledge, urges ODF as native format
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Italo Vignoli
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Summary
The Document Foundation responds to the Euro-Office pre-announcement, welcoming its commitment to open standards but clarifying that Euro-Office is not "the first European open source office suite." They note that LibreOffice and other European open source office software have existed for years. The Foundation argues that Euro-Office should use ODF (Open Document Format) as its native document format to fully realize its commitment to open standards, rather than relying on proprietary formats like the legacy OOXML format.
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Europe has been building free and open source office software for many years: LibreOffice, developed by this Foundation and a worldwide community, is itself European, mature, and far from alone.
We note it not to claim precedence — precedence is not the point — but because accuracy serves the cause of open standards better than enthusiasm alone.
The promise of open standards is not just in the declaration but in the implementation.
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