XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:00:28 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:47:20 -0500, -hh wrote:   
   >   
   >> ...has FOSS done a better job of not orphaning MS's older file formats   
   >> that MS themselves have now abandoned?   
   >   
   > That’s a question you can easily answer for yourself. How much time does   
   > it take to download and install an open-source office suite, and seeing   
   > what it does with your old documents?   
   >   
   > It’s not a question that’s bothered me personally, because I was never   
   > that dumb as to entrust anything important to proprietary formats for   
   > long-term archival purposes.   
      
   I'm sure that there are old .doc files people can download to see if they   
   work correctly in LibreOffice. For my part, there are educational sites   
   which have grammar exercises saved in .doc for some reason rather than the   
   new version. Unsurprisingly, they load perfectly in LO.   
      
      
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