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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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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or it could usher in an age of cloud-only apps where customers don't have access to the binaries so they can't reverse engineer them.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

This is already a clean-room reimplementation, not a binary decomp.