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On Wed, 1 Jan 2025, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2025-01-01, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> On 2024-12-31, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would bet that it is AbiWord that is the issue, not any kind of bug
>>>> with ODT. If AbiWord couldn't handle DOCX though, I would blame the
>>>> format since it is closed despite its name.
>>>
>>> The original .doc format was closed too.  You could get a look at
>>> the specs, but you had to sign a non-disclosure agreement first.
>>> I once heard from someone who signed the NDA and looked at the
>>> specs.  He said you really didn't want to know what was in there.
>>> It was a real dog's breakfast - but I suppose the people who
>>> revese-engineered it knew that already.
>>
>> I'm not surprised. It is fascinating how the company culture is created to
>> turn out bad software. Makes one wonder if it would be possible to create
>> a kind of anti-Microsoft company culture that would produce gems?
>
> The Linux community seems to be as close to that sort of culture as
> we're likely to get.

Another "mini culture" I keep my eyes on is the sqlite community. In many 
respects, anti-Linux, but they are producing powerful software!

Are there other projects you think are of similar power, in terms of use 
and quality, as sqlite? Maybe the curl community?