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Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subscription-based services may come next (www.tomshardware.com)
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Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.

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[–] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yes please do the Autodesk tools without the insane price, Gbs of bloat, insane DRM and only on the cloud crap and with Linux compatibility and being open source so all the little quality of life improvements that everyone has been demanding for decades are finally done within a month.

Autodesk has been sitting on its laurels for decades by being industry standard. About time someone knocks them down a few pegs. I just want to make things to 3D print to use in my own house. I shouldn't have to put up with all that shit.

I hope they keep going and that the legal system won't be weaponized against them. Liberating those tools will unlock so much more innovation in the world.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Oh, he already has AutoCad, called cadcraft.

    Feel free to try it out and let me know how well it works.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago*

    I played around with it a little. Seems pretty great for 2D CAD although I don't have much experience in that. This program is ancient by modern standards.

    What I am really interested in is them making a clone of Inventor or Fusion360. That will be huge for anyone who owns a 3D printer.

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