Technology
Celebrating 20 Years of Open Document Format: A Milestone in the Fight for File Freedom
2025-05-03
Author: Siti
This year marks a significant anniversary in the tech world: the Open Document Format (ODF) has officially turned 20! This innovative standard was created in a bid to promote open, vendor-neutral file formats, challenging Microsoft's reign over the desktop.
Flashback to when the internet was just beginning to blossom. Concerns about U.S.-based tech giants monopolizing applications and data were rampant. Back then, if you wanted to access a Microsoft Office file, you had no choice but to shell out for their suite.
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