Comment by kergonath
12 hours ago
> The EU could do something non-performative by it and its governments stopping issuing documents in proprietary Microsoft formats and use OSS only.
They would get hairy quickly, because the Office formats are actually open standards.
It’s also a tall order. How they run their administration is fundamentally the member-states’ prerogative, I don’t really see what lever the commission would have to bend the council on that subject.
> because the Office formats are actually open standards
They are technically open standards in that they've been ratified, but I'm not sure they're fully independently implementable.