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I guess you don’t realize Microsoft has been doing this with .docx and .xlsx for years. They claim it’s an open standard but it doesn’t work flawlessly in anyt
by alexfromapex 4y ago
I guess you don’t realize Microsoft has been doing this with .docx and .xlsx for years. They claim it’s an open standard but it doesn’t work flawlessly in anything but their software. It’s more subtle but the same type of walled garden trickery.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoSomeone's CV in .docx would be readable at least and, most of the time with intact formatting (especially if the author didn't use spaces as indentation), even if opened in some {libre,star,open}office or whatever, heck, on modern Windows you can open .docx in Wordpad, ie you don't even need MS Office on Windows to open .docx. But I don't even know what is the Pages[0] format, extension, what apps can open it on Windows.[1] [0] like really, I never in my life needed this. [1] yes, you just can open it in 7z, but the similar can be done with .docx too.
- bink 4y agoI don't mean to be dis-charitable to your comments but it sounds like you're saying that people should use the currently bigger walled garden over the currently smaller walled garden?
- justsomehnguy 4y ago.docx, as the data interchange format, is not a walled garden, compared to Pages. Sure Pages is readable on every Apple OS, but .docx is readable on almost anything moder, with a loss a loss of formatting or not.
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