Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source

Joel wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

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?

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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.

Libreoffice has a server mode that one can set up. I forget how to set it up,
but our work project used it for automated document conversion.  It works on
Windows as well as Linux:

    https://www.coretechnologies.com/products/AlwaysUp/Apps/InstallLibreOfficeAsAWindowsService.html

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