@amerika >then I'll go buy another copy of Word 2013
You cannot buy proprietary software - you can only rent it.

Please don't give microsoft more money, it is immoral to do so - at least go with an unauthorized copy (although it's better if you didn't use word at all).

word 2013 will perform rather poorly when it comes to displaying .docx files made by newer versions of word - libreoffice might even do better.

>There are commercial products that do a great job, is the point.
I don't believe there's any office programs that has acceptable support for microsofts non-formats aside from office (even then, only between the same versions, support is bad between different versions) and libreoffice (plus one SaaSS that reuses libreoffices filehandling code).

>LibreOffice is a failure.
You keep claiming that, but it works on my machine.

>Quality of software is dependent on the people that make it.
Yes, the free software I use is developed by only the highest skilled software developers (free software developers) and I avoid stuff from malware authors.