Cuando se anunció The Document Foundation hace dieciséis años, a algunas personas les pareció que el nombre era un poco soso. No brillaba. Se refería a un objeto -el documento- en lugar de a un producto, un movimiento o una aspiración. Hoy en día, vale la pena volver a analizar
When The Document Foundation was announced sixteen years ago, some people found the name a little flat. It didn’t sparkle. It named an object — the document — rather than a product, a movement, or an aspiration. Today, that same name is worth a second look, because it turns out
Un compromiso muy positivo con los estándares abiertos, y por qué debería culminar con el ODF como formato de documento nativo de Euro-Office. El preanuncio de Euro-Office ha generado una considerable cobertura en la prensa europea durante los últimos días. The Document Foundation celebra la atención que están recibiendo los
A welcome commitment to open standards — and why it should end with ODF as Euro-Office’s native document format. The Euro-Office pre-announcement has generated considerable coverage across the European press over the past few days. The Document Foundation welcomes the attention that open standards are receiving — and welcomes still
Estimados usuarios de paquetes ofimáticos: En los últimos días habrán leído diversos artículos que anuncian la llegada de Euro-Office, que se está promocionando como el primer paquete ofimático de código abierto desarrollado en Europa. Nos vemos obligados -a regañadientes, ya que el código abierto debe basarse en la transparencia, no
Dear office suite users, In recent days you will have read various articles announcing the arrival of Euro-Office, which is being “marketed” as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe. We feel compelled — reluctantly, since open source should rest on transparency, not deception — to correct this claim.
Cuando a una administración pública se le dice que sus documentos están almacenados en «un formato estándar ISO», la suposición es razonable: una norma ISO debería ser una especificación clara y aplicable que cualquier proveedor de software calificado pueda admitir. Las normas existen precisamente para que nadie quede atado
When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is reasonable: an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support. Standards exist precisely so that nobody is locked to a single supplier. OOXML —
A number of journalists read last week’s piece as an attack on Microsoft. We want to explain what they walked past. Whenever we address the contrast between ODF and OOXML, some people perceive it as a campaign against a company. It is not. We are trying to do something far
La mayoría de la gente, incluidos muchos desarrolladores de software competentes, concibe un documento digital de la misma manera que concibe una hoja de papel: como un objeto inerte que contiene palabras e imágenes, indiferente a la herramienta que se utilice para abrirlo. Esta intuición es errónea, y las consecuencias
Berlin, 8 May 2026 – Twenty years ago this week, on 3 May 2006, the Open Document Format cleared its Draft International Standard ballot at ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 with unanimous approval. On 30 November 2006 it was published as ISO/IEC 26300. Two decades later, ODF remains what it was
Recently, The Document Foundation published an open letter to European citizens. We asked Euro-Office – the new coalition forming around a European alternative for productivity – whether ODF (the Open Document Format) would be its native document format. Unfortunately, we have not yet received a reply, and this confirms –
The Document Foundation was created in 2010 with a single, non-negotiable premise: that a free, fully-featured office suite, built on open standards and governed in the public interest, is infrastructure for democracy. Not a product. Not a market position. Infrastructure, the kind that belongs to everyone and can be taken
Discover how Germany's ODF mandate for public administration strengthens digital sovereignty and promotes efficient data exchange in the Sovereign Digital Stack.
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Ideally, we would have preferred to avoid this post. However, the articles and comments published in response to Collabora’s and Michael Meeks’ biased posts compel us to provide this background information on the events that led to the current situation. Unfortunately, we have to start from the very beginning, but
Die Ankündigung von Euro-Office – einem Zusammenschluss von IONOS, Nextcloud und anderen Unternehmen zur Entwicklung einer europäischen Alternative zu Bürosoftware – hat erwartungsgemäß zahlreiche Kommentare ausgelöst. Die meisten davon konzentrieren sich auf die Lizenzfrage: Ist der Code Open Source? Wer kontrolliert das Repository? Unter welchen Bedingungen darf man ihn forken,
Euro-Office’s announcement – which sees IONOS, Nextcloud and other companies coming together to create a European alternative to office productivity software – has predictably sparked a wave of comments. Most of these focus on the issue of licensing: is the code open source? Who controls the repository? What are the
The announcement of the Euro-Office is welcome news. The coalition is credible, the governance is sound and the timing is perfect. Europe needs office software, and The Document Foundation is delighted to see such significant players allocating resources to make it happen. However, we have a question. It is not
The door to digital sovereignty is open, please come in For decades, a community of developers, activists, researchers and public officials has quietly worked on the idea that free and open-source software based on open standards is not only the best technical choice, but also the only one compatible with
por Italo Vignoli Cada año, el último miércoles de marzo, la comunidad de código abierto celebra el Día de la Libertad de los Documentos. Es una excelente oportunidad para detenerse un momento y plantearse una pregunta que parece técnica, pero que en realidad es profundamente política: ¿quién controla tus documentos?
por Italo Vignoli La Ley 15.211/2025 de Brasil, también conocida como el Estatuto Digital de la Niñez y la Adolescencia (EDCA), entró en vigor el 17 de marzo de 2026. Se trata de una de las normativas más completas del mundo en materia de protección digital de menores, con
Die deutsche Bundesregierung hat stillschweigend einen äußerst wichtigen Schritt unternommen: Versteckt in den technischen Spezifikationen des Deutschland-Stacks – den Regeln, die die souveräne digitale Infrastruktur regeln werden, die die öffentliche Verwaltung auf allen Regierungsebenen, von den Bundesministerien bis zu den Gemeinderäten, unterstützt – findet sich eine kurze, aber höchst…
The German federal government has quietly taken an extremely significant step: hidden amongst the technical specifications of the Deutschland-Stack – the rules that will govern the sovereign digital infrastructure supporting public administration at all levels of government, from federal ministries to local council offices – there is a short but
La The Document Foundation (TDF), organización sin fines de lucro responsable de LibreOffice, celebra la inclusión del Open Document Format (ODF) como formato estándar obligatorio en el Deutschland-Stack, la infraestructura digital soberana del gobierno federal alemán para todas las administraciones públicas. El Stack, publicado por el Ministerio Federal Alemán de
Die The Document Foundation (TDF), die gemeinnützige Organisation hinter LibreOffice, begrüßt die Aufnahme des Open Document Format (ODF) als verbindliches Standardformat in den Deutschland-Stack, das digitale Infrastruktur-Framework der Bundesregierung für alle öffentlichen Verwaltungen. Der vom Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung veröffentlichte Stack legt die technischen…
por Italo Vignoli Cada año, millones de estudiantes abren una computadora portátil e inician sesión en Microsoft 365 o Google Workspace, entregando su soberanía digital a las grandes empresas tecnológicas de Estados Unidos. Los docentes usan editores basados en la nube para asignar tareas. Los administradores escolares gestionan documentos en
Every year, millions of students open a laptop and log into Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, surrendering their digital sovereignty to US Big Tech in the process. Teachers use cloud-based editors to assign homework. School administrators manage documents in proprietary formats. This ecosystem runs smoothly and seemingly without friction, but
The European Commission has spent years advocating for open standards, vendor neutrality, and digital sovereignty. The European Interoperability Framework explicitly recommends open formats for public sector digital services. The EU’s own Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies, and the Cyber Resilience Act itself is designed
Many interpreted the last article in this series as an attack on Microsoft for using the OOXML format against users’ interests. However, this was only one of my objectives, as I also wanted to raise users’ awareness of fake open-source software, such as OnlyOffice, which partners with Microsoft in a
Desafortunadamente, sigo leyendo sobre defensores del software de código abierto que utilizan alegremente los formatos propietarios DOCX, XLSX y PPTX de Microsoft para sus documentos y, por lo tanto, prefieren software propietario como OnlyOffice a LibreOffice. Otros escriben cosas escandalosas como: «OOXML es un formato estándar y tenemos que aceptarlo».