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Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory
(blog.documentfoundation.org)
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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I've heard building codes can be just as bad, some places the law just says to follow a book and you have to pay some company like $300 to get the book and license things