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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 08:11:37 -0000 (UTC)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 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.

You've ignored my previous response where HUPO has changed the official
names for the problematic genes. 

Although, I do agree not enough scientists know the limitations and
pitfalls of depending too much on excel or other spreadsheet programmes.