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Lots of problems that used to exist in this area no longer do.
Used to be that the de facto standard office format was doc/xls/ppt, now both MS Office and LibreOffice support both ODF and OOXML both of which are open standards.
Used to be that internal software was mostly written for the Windows API, now it is mostly written for web browsers (between which there are no longer any significant differences in terms of standards compatibility).
The world really is slowly getting better. I would like to help accelerate this, but don't really have any ideas where to start.
ODF is an open standard, OOXML is designed to pretend it is one, only one just can't make a compliant implementation and MS doesn't follow what they've published anyway.
Yeah, it's open as it's human readable..
Hex dumps are kinda human readable too. You see human readable values of every byte.
The sheer size of OOXML prevents it from being normally implemented by most people, and then there is the issue of what's made by actual MS Word not following it.