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Surely there is some copyright infringement here?


You’re thinking trademark infringement. IANAL, but I wouldn’t worry about it. Worse comes to worst, you could rename it. That’s what Firefox did.



"Marcel" is a common male name in some parts of the world. That would make a trademark infringement claim somewhat difficult.


What's the other thing named Marcel?


Marcel the Shell with Shoes On [1], a recent Oscar-nominated film

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_the_Shell_with_Shoes_On...


That's in a completely different business. Trademarks generally do not cover all possible uses of a word, only the use of that word in the segment it was approved for.


Plus that one doesn't have shoes.


My thought stemmed from reading the "Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?" post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32831701


tying back to the article... so you want to own a server?


it's "up to 22 billion over 10 years." So $2b/year once things get moving. They're still in testing, so likely less than that figure.


Based on these conversations, I'm curious what you think the chances are of the Army's IVAS program being implemented by September next '22 as they're suggesting.


I'm sure they'll have something, but it's unlikely to be what MS folks originally promised.


Surprised nobody has mentioned this. There is a company called Boardwalktech with a tool called "Excel Cloud" which adds a native extension into Excel which includes a change log and (i think) realtime collaboration, among other things.

They call their underlying tool a "digital ledger" which sounds very blockchain-y, but it's not a distributed public ledger so there's no crypto here, just a centralized, Boardwalktech controlled ledger.

https://www.boardwalktech.com/products/boardwalk-excel-cloud

They're already integrated with some very big companies like Accenture, Ernst and Young, Coca-Cola, Mars, Facebook, etc etc.

Personally, I can't imagine company leaders really investing tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars leaving their processes in Excel and not instead buying a real system, but I'm not running all of the companies mentioned above.


How is this different than the Office 365 version of Excel? It produces change logs/version management and real time collaboration.


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