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[–] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 128 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I got bad news for this guy, his employer is only going to pay for excel and his coworker only knows how to use excel so he better learn to use excel. Also people do a lot of things in excel that have no business being done in excel.

[–] Safeguard@beehaw.org 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The point is that learning institutions should not prefer one commercial companies solutions vs another.

In fact, they should not use or be dependent on commercial companies at all.

Learning stuff and implementing what you learned should be available for all. Not just people with the money.

Companies know this so they give away their stuff for free to these schools knowing they will contain these people for life.

We need to break out of that extreme vendor lock-in.

[–] zeca@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Safeguard@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago
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