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I think KDE should redo Sheets

Open Office has a spreadsheet program called Calc, Gnumeric is an Open source spreadsheet program. Koffice is more what I want to see but I want to see more open spreadsheet programs do what Numbers does. I noticed more formalization of semantics on the web. The whole emphasis on CSS in html5 is an example of that yet offline programs haven't followed suit. Most office programs are stuck trying to ape what Microsoft Office looks like. Mimicry has its place in evolution but software must innovate not imitate to get ahead. I'm not talking about the Template based design of iWork programs in general, most people I talk to find that annoying. I mean the fact that every table starts with A:0. Most spreadsheet programs start with a massive grid and let you have at it. This start encourages people to make their own subtables and partition the first worksheet they see like some fortran programmer might, divvying up the memory they were given by the operating system and addressing it re...

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