I have been using LibreOffice on macs for years and years. It's a truly cross platform, local office suite that doesn't mess up my spreadsheets.
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LibreOffice is available for MacOs. So I don't see the problem.
I was about to ask.
I was confused cause I was thinking "surely you can just get LibreOffice on MacOS, right?" Just did a quick look online and lo and behold, yep. I don't get the issue lol π
Sir, this is a meme community.
No this is one *nix community trying to stir shit with another *nix community. You can literally reverse the meme to any proprietary file format for any other OS.
But.. it's not proprietary. The devs could just... read the spec and implement it. It's probably even easier than that if there are libraries to help.
Sir, this is a meme community.
Iβm going to need to see some ID son
ODT?
Likewise, if a Linux user needed to open existing .pages files, theyβd likely be using LibreOffice as well.
I donβt think this is the argument (esoteric file compatibility) to make for Linux being the superior environment.
If anything, itβs a nice argument for a cross-platform and open-source office productivity suite in LibreOffice.
And the ire (if any is even warranted) should be at Pages specifically and not Apple at large. You can download LobreOffice just fine, or you can pay for Word. Heck, letβs give some love to Preview, the VLC of static documents.
Iβm not here pretending Apple and macOS is superior to Linux, Iβm just saying this isnβt the smoking gun.
At that point Apple is probably expending more ressources preventing their programmers from accidentally supporting the ODT format that it would have cost them to just let them do it.
On one hand, this is exactly what you get for buying apple.
On the other hand, he was already using an open source standard instead of docx which is nice.
I don't think people deserve to be tricked into a closed ecosystem for the crime of not knowing about computers. Computers are hard.
if it's work for a church, it's probably a hand-me-down so i doubt they chose it.
Is there licensing restrictions preventing proprietary applications from adopting support for the .odt format?
MS Word opens .odt files though.
so does google docs iirc. it can even export to odt
So Apple decided to only support the most popular formats. Good to know.
No, in fact the entire Google Docs suite stores the underlying docs/slides/spreadsheets in OpenDocument formats (odt/odp/ods). Apple is just being Apple.
I open odt files on my MacBook all the time.
Not that I'm aware, no.