[ Thanks to Jody for
this link. ]
“The open source spreadsheet package ‘Gnumeric’ was such a good
clone of Microsoft Excel that it even had errors in its statistical
functions similar to those in Excel’s statistical functions. When
apprised of the errors in v1.0.4, the developers of Gnumeric
indicated that they would try to fix the errors. Indeed, Gnumeric
v1.1.2, has largely fixed its flaws, while Microsoft has not fixed
its errors through many successive versions. Persons who desire to
use a spreadsheet package to perform statistical analyses are
advised to use Gnumeric rather than Excel…”