A long blog post to explain the artificial complexity of XLSX files, as compared to ODS files: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… @opendocument @libreoffice
The artificial complexity of OOXML files (the XLSX case) - The Document Foundation Blog
The post, published on 18 July 2025, which explained why an artificially complex XML schema, such as that used by Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office) files, is in fact a subtle tool for locking in users because it is invisible and impossible to…Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •Nice post. This reminds me of the ESRI Enterprise Geodatabase system.
You can build one into a PostgreSQL database, but you can't edit data with non-ESRI tools because it handles IDs and relations in its own way. It's built like that because the same structure is used in their other GeoDatabase formats, but it has the convenient side-effect of locking the data into their tools.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodat…
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family of proprietary GIS data formats
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