[StopDisinfo910]

Typical French reaction to anything positive.

Everytime someone actually does something nice in this country, there will be a dozen nay-sayers complaining uselessly that it is not perfect while doing nothing of value themselves.

It always saddens me to see a country with so much too succeed being so impaired by its own citizens.

[robertlagrant]

This comment didn't impair anything being done, though.

I totally agree with it. The EU could do something non-performative by it and its governments stopping issuing documents in proprietary Microsoft formats and use OSS only.

[kergonath]

> The EU could do something non-performative by it and its governments stopping issuing documents in proprietary Microsoft formats and use OSS only.

They would get hairy quickly, because the Office formats are actually open standards.

It’s also a tall order. How they run their administration is fundamentally the member-states’ prerogative, I don’t really see what lever the commission would have to bend the council on that subject.

[robertlagrant]

> because the Office formats are actually open standards

They are technically open standards in that they've been ratified, but I'm not sure they're fully independently implementable.

[StopDisinfo910]

The constant criticism of people actually trying to do something by people who prefer sitting on their hands is impairing in itself.

People are basically constantly dragging everyone down including themselves while doing absolutely nothing.

I mean technically I guess they sometimes vocally protest in the street that they don't understand why someone else is not solving their own problem or that they would prefer we just pretended the problem never existed which is pretty much equivalent to doing nothing if not worse.

[robertlagrant]

> The constant criticism of people actually trying to do something by people who prefer sitting on their hands is impairing in itself.

No. You need to say how it's impairing the process of this specific adoption to make the claim. It's not self-evident.

[GuB-42]

It is just how we express ourselves. We French are known internationally for complaining a lot, we know it and we even joke about it.

It doesn't mean that nothing gets done (and when it doesn't, it is not usually the reason). We are just not overly enthusiastic about it like Americans tend to be.

A way to see things is that in America, a 5/5 comment is great, 4/5 is acceptable, and anything less is crap. In France, 1/5 is crap, 2/5 is acceptable, and anything more is great. You just have to adjust your scale.