Bricklin updates collaborative spreadsheet
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| The biggest reason Bricklin, 54, will forever be considered an unqualified
| success as a programmer is also the reason people have high expectations
| for his current endeavor, in online spreadsheets: Bricklin is the guy
| who gave us the spreadsheet program.
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| But it's unlikely that wikiCalc will bring Bricklin untold spreadsheet
| millions at long last. The project is open source -- its underlying code
| is open to other tinkerers and the software itself will be free.
| Businesses would pay for help in integrating or customizing the program.
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| "If this is successful, I'll show that a small-business person can go into
| open source and make a living on it," Bricklin says. "Somehow money seems
| to show up for open source."
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