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It's completely unrelated. LibreOffice can open most completely binary DOC or XLS as well, they were just reverse engineered. It has nothing to do with openness
by xvilka 4y ago
It's completely unrelated. LibreOffice can open most completely binary DOC or XLS as well, they were just reverse engineered. It has nothing to do with openness.
- jesprenj 4y agoCorrelation does not imply causation. The fact that Libreoffice can open binary proprietary formats does not automatically imply that all formats it uses are binary and proprietary. DOCX is an open standard.
- xvilka 4y agoDOCX is not an open standard, there are many articles[1][2] why it isn't - even in Wikipedia article [3]. ISO standards committee were just a rubber stamp Microsoft puppets to ensure vendor lock for decades. [1] https://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2007/01/05/criticism-of-ecma-376-microsoft-office-open-xml/ https://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2007/01/05/criticism-of-... [2] http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/how-to-hire-guillaume-portes.html http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/how-to-hire-guillaume-po... [3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Op...
- jesprenj 4y agoI stand corrected, sorry. Emulating some other proprietary software really shouldn't be a paragraph in something we call an "open standard". Thank you for the links.