Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?

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Whether you're really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

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TeX. I was able to use it during school for some beautiful type setting and formatting but nobody I work with wants to use anything other than plain text or unfortunately more commonly binary wysiwyg editor formats. It's frustrating and ugly.

One way I do TeX now is a few templates (letter, memo, etc) and circulate files in PDF.

If you must use Word to circulate files, consider Pandoc as a way to get them out.

What WYSIWYG binary formats have you been using? OpenDocument is zipped XML. OOXML is also zipped XML. RTF is plain text. Everything else is dead. RTF is too, actually.

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