Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:07:50 -0400, DFS wrote:
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Virtually all professional data analysts and statisticians and decision
scientists and engineers and mathematicians use Excel heavily.

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But not the good ones.
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Consider this: either the quality of your work depends on the quality of
your analysis tools, or it doesn’t.
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If it does, then using Excel is a career-limiting move, for all the well-
known reasons.
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If it doesn’t, then why does your employer employ you, anyway?

I've never used Excel nor LO Calc, but I'm about 99.9% sure that the
latter would work just as well if one put some elbow grease into using
it, that's the real difference, M$ wants to put bells and whistles
that make their product stand out, but in terms of what you can get
done, I defy DFS to show how LO wouldn't measure up.  Now, if we were
talking about their database apps, I might believe Access has more
power, from what I saw of LO Base, and what I've heard about them, but
that's just not something I could conceivably have a need for.  I
don't organize stuff in that manner.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.