An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement

An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcementby The Document FoundationThe Document Foundation shares its history to rebuke claims made by Euro-Office about being Europe's first open-source office suite. They argue that by hiding its code provenance and defaulting to Microsoft's proprietary format, Euro-Office actually undermines European digital sovereignty rather than supporting it.Read post ➡ All this post does is make The Document Foundation sound petty and butthurt, especially this part: Euro-Office defaults to the fully proprietary OOXML document format, developed and controlled solely by Microsoft. This makes it a de facto ally of Microsoft in its content lock-in strategy, with control remaining firmly in Redmond and far from Europe. Saying that Euro-Office are an ally of Microsoft is a bit of a stretch. I assume they defaulted to MS format because that's what 99.9999% of the world uses, like it or not. If Euro-Office are going to be successful,…