ArtCraft 已将其不断壮大的 Rust 应用程序集合中加入了 Microsoft Word、Excel 和 PowerPoint 的替代方案，并称这些方案为专有软件的“洁净室重新实现”。
ArtCraft has added alternatives to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to its growing collection of Rust applications, which it describes as "clean-room reimplementations" of proprietary software.
这些项目主要依赖 Claude 进行开发，目前仍处于未完成状态，但我们首次体验其 Word 替代产品 WordCraft 后发现，这些项目值得关注。
The projects lean heavily on Claude for development and remain unfinished, but our first look at its Word alternative, WordCraft, suggests they are worth watching.
该公司的 GitHub 仓库中还包括模仿 Photoshop、Illustrator 和 Premiere Pro 开发的项目。
The company's GitHub repositories also include projects modeled on Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro.
我们在基于 Arm 架构的 Surface 设备上启动了 WordCraft，其运行效果相当不错。
We fired up WordCraft on an Arm-based Surface and it worked pretty well.
WordCraft 与 Microsoft 的应用程序外观相似，但按钮、图标及其他图像元素有所不同。
WordCraft resembles Microsoft's application, although its buttons, icons, and other imagery differ.
ArtCraft 表示：“拼写词典和连字符划分功能源自 Grady Ward 的公共领域 Moby Hyphenator II 单词列表。”
该应用程序采用 MIT 或 Apache 2.0 双重许可。
"The spelling dictionary and hyphenation come from Grady Ward's public-domain Moby Hyphenator II word list," ArtCraft says, and the application is dual-licensed under MIT or Apache 2.0.
该公司特别强调，WordCraft 目前仍处于预 alpha 阶段，预计功能与实际产品的相似度约为 62%，不过“用于日常写作的 alpha 版本已接近完成”。
The company is at pains to point out that WordCraft is at the pre-alpha stage and estimates that it is at 62 percent of real feature parity, although "an alpha for everyday writing is close."
目前我们建议不要将其用于生产环境。
We would keep it away from production workloads for now.
其路线图显示，针对真实文件集合的 DOCX 兼容性测试尚未开始，图表、SmartArt 和嵌入式 OLE 对象功能也尚未实现。
Its roadmap says testing DOCX compatibility against a collection of real-world files has not begun, and charts, SmartArt, and embedded OLE objects are dropped.
开发 LibreOffice 的文档基金会拒绝发表评论。
The Document Foundation, which develops LibreOffice, declined to comment.
Microsoft 回应了我们的询问，但未提供进一步答复。
Microsoft acknowledged our inquiry but offered no further response.
Adobe 也拒绝就这些针对其创意应用程序的项目发表评论。
Adobe also declined to comment on the projects targeting its creative applications.
decoded.legal 的 Neil Brown 告诉《The》，相关法律立场将取决于具体司法管辖区，但他指出，“进行‘重新实现’的一方很可能会主张，由于他们独立实现了底层功能（即……”（在无法访问他们正在重新实现的软件源代码的情况下），他们整体的重新实现并不构成侵权。”
Neil Brown of decoded.legal told The that the legal position would depend on the jurisdiction, but suggested that "those doing the 'reimplementations' may well argue that, since they have implemented the underlying functionality independently (i.e. without access to the source code of the software that they are reimplementing), their overall reimplementation is non-infringing."
不过，“当最可能感到不满的一方资金雄厚、律师众多，而且很可能面临巨大损失时，其法律状况将始终充满变数，甚至极有可能引发诉讼。”
That said, "the legal situation is always going to be interesting, and quite possibly litigated, when the party most likely to feel aggrieved has deep pockets and lots of lawyers, and probably quite a lot to lose."
ArtCraft表示，WordCraft是基于公开规范和观察构建的，并使用了原创或采用开放许可的资产。
ArtCraft says WordCraft was built from public specifications and observation, using original or openly licensed assets.
如今，其业务目标已从创意软件扩展至办公应用，但这些项目能否提供可靠的替代方案仍有待观察。
Its ambitions now extend from creative software to office applications, but whether the projects can deliver reliable replacements remains to be seen.
未来几年，如果AI编程工具从GitHub Copilot的创造者公司收入中分得一杯羹，那将极具讽刺意味。
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In the years to come, it would be richly ironic if AI programming tools took a bite out of the revenues of the company that gave us Copilot in GitHub. ®