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> Basically all of these things are teething problems. The early adopters have problems, the problems get solved, then they're solved for everybody It's not ju
by tjalfi 5y ago
> Basically all of these things are teething problems. The early adopters have problems, the problems get solved, then they're solved for everybody
It's not just teething problems.
Using OpenOffice and Linux means that you're opting out of the substantial ecosystem of legal-specific Word add-ins - document templates for court filings, semantic analysis for contracts, metadata scrubbing, etc. Most of these tools are only available for Windows although some of them support Macs. A small practice can get away with using Linux but a large firm would be foolish to do so.
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoThose are the teething problems. Somebody has to convert the templates or make it so LibreOffice supports them. The early adopters have to deal with that, but then it's done. A lot of that also isn't as hard as you would think. Semantic analysis is looking at text. That isn't likely to be Word-specific and the author could plausibly add support for plain text files in an afternoon, if it isn't already present.