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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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[–] m532@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a simple reason, I hate closed software, I hate adobe, I hate microsoft. Like every real free software advocate.

Did it crash on startup? No? Well then you lied. You lied for adobe, bootlicker.

And of course your worldview won't fall apart that easily, you can always just apply another layer of cope.