Post AZCGTkuiLwASZbgQb2 by pthane@toot.wales
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 (DIR) Post #AZAmJYM10FR2wQiD7Q by topher@mastodon.online
       2023-08-28T00:03:07Z
       
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       @jackivan88 In fairness, the number of spreadsheet documents MS Excel has spontaneously irrecoverably corrupted on me vs. the number LibreOffice has are far from equal.If I had something critically important I needed to do and couldn't afford to lose or go wrong, I would still trust Excel over LibreOffice without even a moment of hesitation.This from a FOSS and Linux desktop user of many years.Maybe if we spent more attention to productivity apps, not changing GNOME UI...@lightweight
       
 (DIR) Post #AZAmJZ6SDaa9GSRIVE by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2023-08-28T00:10:50Z
       
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       @topher the problem is gov'ts giving MSFT  a get-out-of-jail-free card by adopting OOXML as an 'open standard' (that MS controls unilaterally & allows for 'binary blobs' within it). As a result, it can continue to keep potential competitors at bay by tweaking/changing details that make the competing software (from the uniformly oblivious user-perspective at least) look 'less capable'. It's entirely insidious and quite deliberate. @jackivan88
       
 (DIR) Post #AZAmJZp7XWJLUzKy7k by lnxw37a2@pleroma.soykaf.com
       2023-08-28T00:34:43.099290Z
       
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       @lightweight ISO and ECMA were / are complicit in this.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZAmJa9gJ4l2WkxOAi by topher@mastodon.online
       2023-08-28T00:08:10Z
       
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       @jackivan88 Take GNOME Evolution, for example.The groupware client that would be pretty much essential in any business setting using FOSS instead of Microsoft or other commercial platforms.I happen to know Redhat has a solitary person dedicated to maintaining it.One.And yet meanwhile, how many resources has GNOME spent disruptively overhauling their entire UI, stripping away all common, intuitive features an everyday person knows to sit down and interface with a computer?@lightweight
       
 (DIR) Post #AZAmf08Wu4uXBkdDkW by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2023-08-28T00:38:15Z
       
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       @lnxw37a2 I know a fair bit about it. MSFT got its partners in every jurisdiction to join their national ISO committees just for that one vote. In effect, MSFT showed they could corrupt the global ISO process on a whim.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZBehsYOwnOg44YPYm by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2023-08-27T23:29:46Z
       
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       I wonder at the level of latent desire for a full transition to Linux and #FOSS / #LibreSoftware within the technically savvy part of the business world (i.e. those running corporate/institutional networks who currently have to suffer with MS Windows). I suspect it's far higher than most people think.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZBehuX3alVgCTwMk4 by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2023-08-28T00:45:42Z
       
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       I've watched a lot of good people I know working in environments that constantly compromise their values & force them to contend with soul-destroying cognitive dissonance. Many, it seems, become cynical champions of precisely the tech approach (proprietary multinationals) they originally reviled. Sadly, coping with a broken digital world (see https://davelane.nz/darkage) destroys far more than our digital experience. It harms good people & the rest of us by proxy.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZCGTkuiLwASZbgQb2 by pthane@toot.wales
       2023-08-28T07:36:19Z
       
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       @lightweight It's government attitudes I find most baffling. They have the scale and the budget to employ their own FOSS developers to create systems designed for their needs. They, we, own the universities with their comp sci departments to train up new developers and lower down the food chain the colleges to train users, technicians etc. But they, we, prefer to throw money at foreign corporations who supply a generic solution that's not quite what we need at huge cost.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZCcvwPfOGmzKz0Qro by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2023-08-28T21:58:56Z
       
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       @lightweight> Many, it seems, become cynical champions of precisely the tech approach (proprietary multinationals) they originally reviledThere's an old saying about how difficult it is for people to understand something their paycheck depends on them not understanding...