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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

An artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

The Document Foundation, which developers LibreOffice, is mad at Microsoft for the levels of complexity in the Microsoft 365 document format. They claim Microsoft intentionally makes this format's XML schema as complex and obtuse as possible to lock users into the Microsoft Office ecosystem.

This artificial complexity is charact

https://www.osnews.com/story/142851/an-artificially-complex-xml-schema-as-a-lock-in-tool/

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