LibreOffice blasts Microsoft for putting “commercial interests” over everything

Despite being free, one of the main issues stopping people from making the switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice is compatibility. While the suite is generally compatible with Microsoft’s formats, every now and then, users run into weird quirks with formatting and layout.

In fact, The Document Foundation (TDF), the folks behind LibreOffice, have called out Microsoft in the past for what it sees as anticompetitive behavior. It has long been argued that Microsoft’s file formats are intentionally complex to keep users locked inside its ecosystem.

Now, TDF is doubling down, accusing Microsoft of overlooking everything “for its own commercial interests.” In a blog post by Italo Vignoli, a founding member of TDF, he called the idea that “OOXML is a standard format, and we have to accept it,” “outrageous”.

Vignoli argued that OOXML could “never be a standard format”…