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Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory (blog.documentfoundation.org)
submitted 1 week ago by FirmDistribution@lemmy.world to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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[โ€“] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ODF and PDF/UA are explicitly named as the two mandated document formats, to the exclusion of proprietary alternatives.

Mandatory is nice, but nowhere could I find the information:

For whom, and for what, and when?

[โ€“] eunieisthebus@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

You probably missed the fax with the details