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On what grounds? Do they have a patent on spreadsheet-looking interfaces?

It leaves a bit of a bad taste IMO to blatantly copy a startup that’s working its ass off to create a good product and then releasing it as open source, but I have a hard time imagining you can make this legal. Not a lawyer though.




Copyright infringement based on Copyright law.




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