Re: The enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel

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That statement presumes that all product alternatives work well, and not
too particularly buggy.  In reading your comment I was reminded of a
quite bad experience I had with Open Office (OO) a decade ago.
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Here's the GG archive link:
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<https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux.advocacy/c/XKYAl0HHMkQ/m/6C7lLDde8mEJ>

A lotta people jumped ship from OpenOffice once Oracle got ahold of it.

Now:

    In 2011, Oracle Corporation, the then-owner of Sun, announced that it would
    no longer offer a commercial version of the suite and donated the project
    to the Apache Foundation. Apache renamed the software Apache OpenOffice.

The same with Hudson:

    Eventually Oracle donated the remaining Hudson project assets to the
    Eclipse Foundation at the end of 2012. Having been replaced by Jenkins,
    Hudson is no longer maintained and was announced as obsolete in February
    2017.

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