> I'm sure ODT works well for many personal use cases, but can guarantee it will never see adoption in the legal industry. Microsoft Word is the only viable option for lawyers.

I'm a lawyer, though I'm practicing in a wholly different legal system (Romanic civil law) and another country. Why would you say that?

No issues against .docx and and Word per se, but I hate that stupid ribbon with undying hatred. Thus I use LibreOffice as much as I can, while maintaining a licensed Office 365 setup under dual boot with Windows for cases when I have no other choice.

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bigstrat2003 4 days ago | parent [-]

I don't think it's too surprising that another country's legal profession would have a different culture than that of the US. When OP says that ODT will never see adoption in the legal industry, I think it's fair to say there was an implied "in the US" there.

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sombragris 4 days ago | parent [-]

Your post comes off as a little patronizing, and still does not answer the question about the "why".

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IAmBroom 3 days ago | parent [-]

Universal (country-wide) professional adoption, which implicitly requires equivalent display of features that are not often used by the general public.

For a similar reason, faxes will never die out in the US, because the legal industry requires them.

	▲	sombragris 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Universal (country-wide) professional adoption, which implicitly requires equivalent display of features that are not often used by the general public. That was my hunch, too. Okay, but which features, that only are in Word but not on other products?