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There is minimal downside to switching to open models


Andrew Marble marble.onl andrew@willows.ai June 21, 2026 There was a time not too long ago when using Linux entailed some professional risk1. First there was compatibility: you may not have been able to render a Word document or PowerPoint correctly, and you might have had to trust Open Office’s export capability to render docs the way you wanted.

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