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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 00:20:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 15:55:22 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:

> Having said all that, claiming that using MS Office is "unprofessional"
> is laughable.

What else do you call it, when “professionals” who should know better,
continue to use it to make the same old mistakes?

A research paper on the lessons learned
<https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008984>
since the mass-renaming of genes to avoid Excel mistakenly converting
them to dates: none.

No lessons were learned.