Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF

The Document Foundation welcomes Euro-Office's commitment to open standards but clarifies that it is not the first European open source office suite, as LibreOffice and others have existed for years. The Foundation emphasizes that true digital sovereignty requires ODF (OpenDocument Format) to be Euro-Office's native format rather than merely a supported format, stating that "a format that is merely supported is one a suite can read and write as a courtesy, while a native format is the one in which its documents are created, stored, and trusted across the years."