Open legacy Microsoft documents in Linux

Say goodbye to proprietary formats, as Nate Drake helps give your old Microsoft files a new lease of life on Linux.

In 1989, the father of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee, made a momentous decision. To give HTML and the world’s first web browser to the world freely. Since then, there’s been much speculation about what would have happened if he’d tried to patent his code or web browser. The most likely scenario would be a fragmented internet behind paywalls, which not even Google could access. As we continue to reap the benefits of a relatively open internet, it’s easy to forget the main advantages of embracing Linux and royalty-free code. Even if an open source project is abandoned, as recently happened to Neofetch, the source code is freely available for others to maintain and fork. Sadly, the gods of Microsoft haven’t always read this particular memo. For decades, the company has…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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