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[–] 56 points 2 months ago*

Old and busted:

Running your badly written bullshit on a bundled Chromium instance.

New hotness:

Running your badly written bullshit on a bundled office suite.

Future:

Running your badly written bullshit on an office suite running through Wasm on a Chromium instance inside of a virtual machine.

Whatever it takes to not have to make developers have to learn to write code again.

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  • [–] 87 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    why didn’t they just ask chat peepee to write an office suite for them? i heard it’s really good at code 🫣

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I've been waiting for all the new software that is going to displace the expensive incumbents.

    Pretty much every industry has specialist software that is really expensive so there's plenty of choices for a competitor to make.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The only scene I see flourishing is game modding.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I've done this for a game I play. I've no interest in learning unity, but had a bunch of mods I'd like to make that are more than config edits. I was able to vibe code about 5 of them in an evening or two that do exactly what I want. They're probably terrible code, but nothing else is built on top of them, I'm not distributing them and if they break they break no big deal. So pretty happy with it.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Wow! If only I could get LibreOffice for free without ChatGPT.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Weird. I would have expected them to rather illegally bundle a pirated Microsoft Office with it.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    No! Will there be consequences?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Libreoffice is MPL, which allows distribution alongside proprietary software.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    That's interesting and distressing.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    It's the whole issue with copyleft licences.

    EDIT: non-copyleft

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Yes, are you including extrajudicial consequences in your answer?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    No, do you think guillotines, or is that too old school?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    ... But why?
    Surely there are openxml packages for their platform that dont need a full office installation/redistrubution. Like how with c# there is the openxml package. Hell, worst case you have it do word tasks on the server via api. Api already can do it for the online chatgpt...

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Well, pulling in unnecessary dependencies is something ai-written code tends to do, so...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    ahhh, the trick has been dispelled. it isn't as magical as i thought it was.

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