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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: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 22:03:52 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 12:09:24 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:

> LO should have stopped copying excel long ago and taken its users to a
> better spreadsheet experience.

Actually, it already did. Note recommendation in this research paper
<https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008984>,
that if you really must use a spreadsheet to work with important data,
at least make it LibreOffice Calc and not Microsoft Excel.

> LO should work with Posit and build a proper analytical/statistical data
> platform based around R.

We have that, too. It’s called Jupyter <https://jupyter.org/>.