No, is not incompetence. Contrary to MS, FLOSS Unixen were designed as a client/server role, and with these Unixen with easy licenses, you can decouple your core and your UI and manage your software anywhere, be it from terminal, a TUI client, HTML, a QT client, TCL/TK, your smartphone... Try that with MS Windows Server licenses.
Simply, the network won. And, for the 'integrated' guys...
MSOffice and VBA are silos were the data often got mangled, losing billions in bioinformatics, for instanced.
Having the markup, the data, the input, output and reports in the same file, that's the recipe for a disaster. And it did happen. As I stated, Unix established a clear pipeline, transforming data sequentially and having each step of the process either recordable or trivially decoupleable.
Smart people would just begin with plain text files and format them once they are finished. Ditto with spreadsheets. CVS/TSV first, data transforms and function should come later, ideally separating the input file from the output.
Reading to print/end user documents should always be under a PDF/DJVU format, never to be edited, but universally viewed in the same way no matter the OS. Period.
PDF's/DJVU's should be the target format, either from Excel, or Word or even PPT's. Oh, these format don't support inline videos nor macros or whatever potentially risky function to crap out your, you know, valuable outputed data? That's even better. Data should have been precalculated and presented long ago.
Honestly, I’m not following the full thread of your argument.
But what I do take, is that you think the UNIX world is just much better organised than the alternative; and anyone who doesn’t understand that and isn’t thriving in that environment… is the problem?
And you don’t see the problem with this line of thinking?
Simply, the network won. And, for the 'integrated' guys... MSOffice and VBA are silos were the data often got mangled, losing billions in bioinformatics, for instanced.
Having the markup, the data, the input, output and reports in the same file, that's the recipe for a disaster. And it did happen. As I stated, Unix established a clear pipeline, transforming data sequentially and having each step of the process either recordable or trivially decoupleable.
Smart people would just begin with plain text files and format them once they are finished. Ditto with spreadsheets. CVS/TSV first, data transforms and function should come later, ideally separating the input file from the output.
Reading to print/end user documents should always be under a PDF/DJVU format, never to be edited, but universally viewed in the same way no matter the OS. Period.
PDF's/DJVU's should be the target format, either from Excel, or Word or even PPT's. Oh, these format don't support inline videos nor macros or whatever potentially risky function to crap out your, you know, valuable outputed data? That's even better. Data should have been precalculated and presented long ago.