• lama@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I’ve had a resume and a work report, both look good for me but totally broken in word.

    In my experience this means that the only way to be sure that your docx document is going to look right when shared with other people is to use MS Word, thereby locking us all in.

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      5 hours ago

      but this is really only true and a problem for the end user, and you can’t maintain an empire by refusing to collaborate with the larger userbase.

      that’s how Adobe became an industry standard. They eventually claimed the larger userbase and businesses had to adapt or spend millions on training.