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I don’t see how the network lock-in problem couldn’t be solved by automatically generating a DOCX version, however. As long as you can seamlessly import and exp
by 9dev 2y ago
I don’t see how the network lock-in problem couldn’t be solved by automatically generating a DOCX version, however. As long as you can seamlessly import and export the standard—or shall we say, legacy?—format, you could work with a version control app without the other side even noticing.
- mushufasa 2y agoin theory yes. in practice... google docs and libreoffice still have formating and vcs compatibility issues. To an amateur it looks fine because both systems claim to support docx and will open/write files. To someone who deals with a lot of documents... let's say it caused enough issues where it didn't pick up or properly delete microsoft word's proprietary track changes to where our lawyer just offered to personally buy me an official microsoft word license to avoid the back and forth. Actually, that was when i was already using the web-based microsoft365 word online! the codebase for desktop word must be deep deep spaghetti. if you think you can solve what Google hasn't in 15 years despite many dedicated resources, or the entirety of the FOSS efforts over 30 years for libreoffice... that would be literally incredible