Title text: The heartfelt tune it plays is CC licensed, and you can get it from my seed on JoinDiaspora.net whenever that project gets going.

Transcript

2003:

[Cueball approaches a bearded fellow.]

Cueball: Did you get my essay?
Bearded Fellow: Yeah, it was good! But it was a .doc; You should really use a more open-
Cueball: Give it a rest already. Maybe we just want to live our lives and use software that works, not get wrapped up in your stupid nerd turf wars.
Bearded Fellow: I just want people to care about the infrastructures we’re building and who-
Cueball: No, you just want to feel smugly superior. You have no sense of perspective and are probably autistic.

2010:

Cueball: Oh my God! We handed control of our social world to Facebook and they’re DOING EVIL STUFF!
Bearded Fellow: Do you see this?

[Inset, the bearded fellow rubs his index and middle fingers against his thumb.]

Bearded Fellow: It’s the world’s tiniest open-source violin.

  • MonkderZweite@feddit.chEnglish
    61·
    11 months ago

    Instead of using .odt.

    Maybe with more advertising? Most people don’t know about the Open Document Format and that it’s standardization sent MS to panicky rework their .doc & co. to pseudo-open OOXML (.docx etc.).

    • adriaan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      When you save an odt from Word and open it in OpenOffice, the formatting is usually all fucked. At least that used to be the case. A pdf comes out right on the other side.

      • okamiueru@lemmy.worldEnglish
        211·
        11 months ago

        It’s intentionally fucked by MS. It doesn’t matter that this non-MS software actually follows consistent standards. As long as its only the minority, they get away with it looking like it’s the others not being consistent.

        MS has a history of doing it. It’s in the company ethos of “embrace, extend and extinguish”. Imagine something as simple as storing the contents of a document being at the behest of a private company. Humanity is all the worse for it.