Yeah, I’ve read about that. But, then again, the legal industry was probably exceedingly low on the likely-to-change-to-Linux probability list in 1999, as well. I’ve worked for some lawyers in the past and they’re a shockingly traditional dont-change-anything-ever group. (Not particularly shocking.)
WordPerfect continued to thrive in the legal industry for years to come due to its “reveal codes” feature and the way it counted words.
Here’s a post about that from 2008.
https://ask.metafilter.com/96820/Why-do-so-many-laywers-use-WordPerfect
Yeah, I’ve read about that. But, then again, the legal industry was probably exceedingly low on the likely-to-change-to-Linux probability list in 1999, as well. I’ve worked for some lawyers in the past and they’re a shockingly traditional dont-change-anything-ever group. (Not particularly shocking.)