Post by @lstngr@tilde.zone

2026-09-06 09:18 UTC

@simondueckert@mastodon.social @edri@eupolicy.social while i agree for docx, odt literally stands for OpenDocument (Text), which is an xml-based open standard. You do need an app to edit them conveniently, granted, but it's far from a proprietary solution (LibreOffice and Euro-Office, for example, are open sourced editors).

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@simondueckert@mastodon.social 2026-09-06 09:24

@lstngr@tilde.zone @edri@eupolicy.social Sure, odt is open. But I try to avoid container when lightweight text formats work well enough.

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@toriver@mas.to 2026-09-06 09:28

@lstngr@tilde.zone @simondueckert@mastodon.social @edri@eupolicy.social Microsoft pretends that OOXML that Office uses is an open standard as well, when it mostly is their spec that they got a rubber stamp on.

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@Mordenacus@mastodon.social 2026-09-06 11:04

@lstngr@tilde.zone @simondueckert@mastodon.social @edri@eupolicy.social The ODT format is fine, but one of my favorite and often overlooked benefits of using plaintext for documents is being able to conveniently write with the same tools that I'd be using for programming anyways, which makes automating tasks /much/ easier. It has the added bonus of introducing any non-programmers you work with to tools they'd love but don't know about. (and bonus points for proper vim binds - most ODT editors have subpar plugins for that at best)

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