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| They have already broken compatibility. Last week at work, the formatting in a
vital .docx in a fully patched Monopoly Office broke irretreivably (why did they
never copy the Reveal Codes feature from Word Pefect, the patents, if any, of
which must have expired by now?) as happens all too often. On this occasion, the
first time ever, LO completely failed to open the document properly, but it did
manage to show some stuff that should not have been there. It was so messed up
that it could not be saved in any other format, without LO crashing, which it
generally never does. I eventually had to copy and paste, as text, the whole
document, section by section, in Word, and then reapply all the styles and
formatting. Part of the gross incompetence of the Monopoly is that each PC
seems to accumulate an ever-increasing amount of garbage styles and formatting
in the normal.dotm, and some of it seems to override styles and formatting in
the document itself. The file had been edited, not by me, on at least one other
PC, a recipie for certain disaster. Probably a feature that has been there since
the original buggy code written allegedly by the inventor of the remarkably
trivial "Hungarian Method" of programming, a trivial extension of the variable
naming used in Fortran at the time. Gates had a particular talent for recruiting
people who were massively incompetent at writing correct code or making programs
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