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LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats

5 months ago by Sahwa to c/technology

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The Document Foundation criticizes the EU Commission for exclusively using Microsoft's XLSX format in the Cyber Resilience Act consultation.

The Foundation sees this as a contradiction to the EU's own interoperability goals. Although XLSX is standardized as OOXML according to ISO/IEC 29500, Microsoft's implementations often deviate from the specifications. Furthermore, features often change undocumented, which complicates compatibility with open-source software such as LibreOffice.

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grue 102 points 5 months ago

"OOXML" is literally just an XML serialization of MS Office internal data structures that Microsoft bribed the standards body to push through.

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b_tr3e 109 points 5 months ago

"bribed" is a gross simplifiction of the almost hilariously evil plot they pulled to get OOXML certified. They actually bribed a couple of smaller nation states to become IETF members and vote for Microsoft's standard. It was a major scandal back in the day but formally legal.

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Exatron 18 points 5 months ago

I remember that plot also gumming up IETF business because the bribed nations just stopped participating after voting for Microsoft.

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Theoriginalthon 13 points 5 months ago

I remember, only trouble is a lot of people at the time didn't care or were paid loads of money to not care.

Also the name Office Open XML right at the time OpenOffice was the only one about before oracle came in and fucked it over

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utopiah 2 points 5 months ago

It's like noticing a car crash and looking back... you know you shouldn't and yet it's somehow mesmerizing. So... where can I actually read about this please?

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b_tr3e 3 points 5 months ago

Wikipedia for a beginning: https://en.wikipedia.org/... I remember The Register having a more detailed (and pretty snarky) article about it back then, but I didn't search for it yet.

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