Picking Up The Pieces

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The article highlights a shift in the approach in product documentation (particularly in smaller startups)  from commercial software like Microsoft Word and Adobe FrameMaker were the industry standards. The trend is now towards open-source alternatives like Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice.


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