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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: YouTube video shows what the Recall log file looks like
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:16:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:03:04 -0400, DFS wrote:

> On 10/30/2024 12:16 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:45:41 -0400, DFS wrote:
>> 
>>> Here's the datasource: 
>>> https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/download-datasets.html
>>>
>>> Here's my MS Access 2003 app:  https://imgur.com/a/PBpe6Al
>>>
>>> It was built against a few tables from SR28.  It has one tab control
>>> with 2 pages, 7 listboxes, 2 option groups, one textbox, and small
>>> amounts of VBA code.
>>>
>>> Your mission, should you choose to accept it (you won't), is to
>>> replicate that simple app functionality in LibreOffice.
>> 
>> Oh look, somebody already knows how to put it through professional
>> analysis tools (i.e. not Microsoft):
>> <https://github.com/afogarty85/fooddata_central>.
>> 
>> As the saying does: “Your move, creep.”
> 
> Told you you would fail.

Think about why Microsoft has been forced to offer access to Python-based 
open-source tools to its Excel users: it’s because of the quality of 
analysis available through examples like the above.

Now think about why Microsoft can get away with charging for those extra 
tools: it’s because Microsoft users (like yourself) are too dumb to 
realize they can bypass Microsoft and use them for free.