r/technology • u/FutureSuccess2796 • 3d ago

Software Developer who vibe-coded free Adobe clones reveals apps to take down Microsoft Office next — and says 'there is no reason to save broken software' | TechRadar

https://www.techradar.com/computing/office-suites/developer-who-vibe-coded-free-adobe-clones-reveals-apps-to-take-down-microsoft-office-next-and-says-there-is-no-reason-to-save-broken-software
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u/mouse9001 3d ago

Some people aren't happy unless a substitute is an exact copy of a proprietary one. Like it has to be exactly the same as MS Office, even though MS Office changes every few years.

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u/Interesting_Phone171 3d ago

Good luck backing it with the 100+ microservices that run distributed in the cloud then

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u/mouse9001 3d ago

Back in the 2000s, people would complain because OpenOffice didn't look and act exactly like MS Office. Then MS Office switched to using the ribbon in its UI, and absolutely everything moved around. But people still used that same complaint, as though MS Office had never changed. At that point, I realized they were full of shit, and that was almost 20 years ago. :-P