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Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subscription-based services may come next (www.tomshardware.com)
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Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.

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[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

The only satisfactory answer (to me) is that they don't feel urgency because they are entrenched without real competition.

It's where the lines intersects with how much it would cost to fix it and how significantly the bug impacts their revenue.