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by bigstrat2003 181 days ago
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 181 days ago
Your post comes off as a little patronizing, and still does not answer the question about the "why".
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IAmBroom 181 days ago
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.

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sombragris 180 days ago
> 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?

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