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DesktopLinux: Could MS Office’s Doom be a Little App Called Writely?

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SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Mar 13, 2006

“Until recently, I thought of Writely as an obscure, but
potentially useful combination word processing and Web blogging
tool. Then, Google bought it, and everything changed.

“Writely isn’t a Linux word-processor. It’s an ‘any operating
system with an Internet connection and a Web browser’
word-processor…”

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SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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