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The issue with inferior Linux copies is where the original is closed source and the company hasn't ported it themselves.

Office suite compatibility issues are due to the incumbent software's closed formats. Evidently, this is a smart move to defend market share.

These aren't Linux problems, they're closed source software problems.

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Sadly the Linux versions sometimes seem to make the same mistakes.

MS Office had clippy, and that kind of irritating help assistant made it into Open Office. (Especially frustrating since Clippy was poorly implemented.

Edit: this is the right link!! http://robotzeitgeist.com/tag/bayesian-inference-engine

I'll leave this here because it's interesting. http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/sep/01/stonehenge-dr... )

I'm not sure if you meant to post a link about stonehenge, but I enjoyed it none the less.

Whoops, thank you!

http://robotzeitgeist.com/tag/bayesian-inference-engine

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