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>Exchanging files in ODF seems much more frictionless to me than in DOCX.

How so? Any program that can open ODF should be able to handle DOCX, both are open formats.

DOCX is an "open" format with closed implementation that relies on Microsoft products: https://fsfe.org/activities/msooxml/msooxml.en.html

I don't see how that link supports your assertion, nor really even the supports the general idea that docx isn't open. Their main complaint seems to be that it's a big standard which makes it hard to implement. Honestly it gets to be a bit hard to take these free software groups seriously when they move the goalposts and try to redefine what common words mean. It's an open format by any reasonable definition and no amount of whining by free software advocates and scare quotes changes that.

ODF is an open format. DOCX is an "open" "format".

eww scare quotes, that definitely makes your point valid.

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