alt Hacker News> you can go all the way back to Office 2007 (with the compatibility pack) and open modern documents
Great, I can open proprietary document formats with proprietary software. I think you are missing the point of this "performative exercise".
> you can go all the way back to Office 2007 (with the compatibility pack) and open modern documents
Great, I can open proprietary document formats with proprietary software. I think you are missing the point of this "performative exercise".
You can also open all of those documents with LibreOffice. My point is the support LibreOffice has for Office documents is fine and not at all a problem, because Office formats have not meaningfully changed over time and they have been supported in LibreOffice for all of that time.