

Can you name me an open source spreadsheet-like program that is not an Excel clone? What this would look like, I don't know. I'd argue Gnumeric is a better Excel clone than OOo Calc, but it's still just an Excel clone. Gnucash, on the other hand, plays the Quicken and MS Money game and, I would argue, does not measure up.īut Gnumeric really is an Excel clone, just as OOo Calc is an Excel clone. It uses a completely different paradigm (the command line, and a plain text data file) and does it very well.


Similarly, Ledger doesn't try to beat Quicken or MS Money at their own game. It doesn't try to beat word processors at their own game-and why should it? Unix text processing has a much longer history than WYSIWYG word processors.
