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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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[–] 28 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

OK. I bet you could trace most of the code back to LibreOffice. AI couldn't have done this without the countless FOSS projects that already have.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    An AI rewrite is just open source with more steps

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Also theft.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Legally it isn't, actually. Morally, yes.

    Check out "AI has a labor issue, not a copyright issue" chapter of "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" by Cory Doctorow

    It's a hard chapter to read, but it's important to understand.

    EDIT: I love the downvotes for speaking the truth, seriously people, please understand. It's important.

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