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 (DIR) Post #B6FzR59j02OtadD5Zg by libreoffice@fosstodon.org
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       Why a digital document is a piece of software, and what that means for your freedomMost people think of a digital document the way they think of a sheet of paper: an object that holds words and pictures, indifferent to the tool used to open it. This intuition is wrong, and the consequences shape everything from vendor lock-in to cybersecurity to the long-term readability of public records.A digital document is a piece of software.https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/13/digital-document-a-piece-of-software/?src=mastodon
       
 (DIR) Post #B6GhdFqlScUeDPxLIu by a_cubed@mastodon.social
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       @libreoffice @villares Absolutely. I do a session on the ethical issues of proprietary document formats in my information ethics class.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6HpF5ow5lZYx13C9A by hanslaagland@mastodon.social
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       @libreoffice ⬆️ Interessante kijk in deze blogpost op een digitaal document als software. Of, zoals keuzehulp voor open en leveranciersonafhankelijke overheidsinformatie Open Publiceren uitlegt: "De keuze van een bestandsformaat doet er toe. Bestandsformaten zijn niet neutraal: zij bepalen hoe toegankelijk, herbruikbaar en controleerbaar overheidsinformatie is en in welke mate overheid afhankelijk blijft van gesloten leveranciersecosystemen." https://openpubliceren.nl/over-ons/missie
       
 (DIR) Post #B6I5cR3ktGoEkX8PXE by wesdym@mastodon.social
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       @libreoffice If it's important to you, print it out, and keep that safe. We have books a thousand years old and older that we can still read. We have digital documents less than a decade old that we cannot, or which were hopelessly lost.