On: Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

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When you’re a government you can mandate the file formats (and versions thereof) you are willing to accept.

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Sure they can make a mandate but the grunts on ground will still get sent pptx files by their vendors.

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And they send them back.

How do you think currencies are established? By accepting chickens and cows in lieu of legal tender? That’s precisely the meaning of legal tender. This is the exact analogue thereof: information is required as value is required, information and value are required in a mandated standardised form, other forms are rejected a priori.