Re:Running a law firm on Free software
by hectormalot on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:09AM
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I looked at the Wordcraft repo. It has 1.5k issues and 1.2k PRs, I think all LLM coded, and many from non-contributors, with a first release just 1 month ago. Isn't this a minefield for someone to put in something that exfiltrates data, loads malware, or something else?
The project and outcome looks impressive, but I wouldn't dare to run this outside a sandbox right now.
Because Wordcraft is faster and more stable than Word. Word rarely crashes, but it does freeze. Wordcraft is freezing about 1/2 as often as Word. For the daily grinding out docs, it's way more viable than Openoffice.
But mostly, because having a workflow entirely dependent on a single vendor seems like something to avoid if possible.
The last formatting bug I encountered was last week. Claude identified, patched, and pushed in 10 minutes.
It doesn't do VBA. However, porting VBA to WC macros is trivial for llms.