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Yes, the title is clickbait. But there has been endless snide commentary over the past 4-5 decades about Excel and Word being ripoffs of other companies' inven
by StevePerkins 5y ago
Yes, the title is clickbait. But there has been endless snide commentary over the past 4-5 decades about Excel and Word being ripoffs of other companies' inventions.
Hell, Microsoft famously didn't develop MS-DOS!
- rylandking 5y agoDOS = disk operating system for anyone curious
- gamache 5y agodisk = an obsolete long-term storage medium, in case anyone was wondering
- ep103 5y agostorage medium = what people used before we all ascended to the cloud, in case anyone was wondering
- smoldesu 5y agowondering = what we used to do before the internet, if anyone was curious
- diogenesjunior 5y agoHN is not turning into reddit at all.
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- laumars 5y agoWouldn’t that be DOSFAC?
- chipotle_coyote 5y agoTrue, true. (Although I'm not sure if Excel and Word are ripoffs except to the degree that word processors and spreadsheets already existed.)