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As the proverb goes; now you have two problems. Depending on proprietary stuff which changes all the time, or even complex FOSS software with single point of f
by scottlocklin 8y ago
As the proverb goes; now you have two problems.
Depending on proprietary stuff which changes all the time, or even complex FOSS software with single point of failure developers (I dunno, TeXmacs or something) is a huge risk which went away when I bought a cheap Leslie Lamport book on LaTeX. Doesn't really matter if a new feature in proprietary application-X allows me to also use it with LaTeX. I can just use LaTeX!
I wrote my dissertation in 2004, can still trivially use the LaTeX in it, and I sometimes do. Libreoffice, Word ... pretty sure I'd have a harder time of it. Heck Libreoffice was probably called StarOffice back then!