Paul Graham on Twitter: "In 2008 I spent a month writing a web-based system for managing all YC's funding documents. With one click you could get an instance of the latest docs, prepopulated with all the startup's info from our database. The lawyers quietly ignored it and kept using Microsoft Word."

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1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Apr 20
  I never realized it till now, but this means I too am among the victims of the Microsoft monopoly. That's sort of amusing.
  
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1. Pascal Marco Caversaccio‏ @pcaversaccio Apr 20
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  Wrt to the technology adoption curve, most lawyers belong to the laggards. It's really a tragedy.
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1. Simon_Lucy‏ @Simon_Lucy Apr 20
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  It wasn't WordPerfect then?
  
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1. Daynex‏ @daynex_ Apr 20
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  Been there done that haha
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1. __dave__‏ @DavidMcElroy5 Apr 20
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  To be fair though. If you were a lawyer and had adopted your program. Would you still be using it now? Would it still be working? Would other firms have it? Or would they have been better sticking with the status quo? This is why microsoft retains its monopoly.
  
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1. Steven Ehrbar‏ @ehrbar Apr 20
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  They'd already moved on from WordPerfect by then? Wow.
  
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1. Irina Nazarova‏ @inazarova Apr 20
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  I did smth similar for our company couple years ago using Google Docs and its script language (js) — it prepares docs, sends email notifications and creates calendar events. And people use it, even some lawyers
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1. Slava Akhmechet‏ @spakhm Apr 20
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  Make something people want!
  
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