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.
LibreOffice is available for MacOs. So I don't see the problem.
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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 😂
Likewise, if a Linux user needed to open existing .pages files, they’d likely be using LibreOffice as well.
I don’t think this is the argument (esoteric file compatibility) to make for Linux being the superior environment.
If anything, it’s 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, let’s give some love to Preview, the VLC of static documents.
I’m not here pretending Apple and macOS is superior to Linux, I’m just saying this isn’t 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 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.
Not that I'm aware, no.
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