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I can imagine real-time collaboration is an immensely interesting problem to work on.

Also wonderful blog post, actually read it in full, thanks!

It truly is the most interesting subject I've been working on yet. The fascinating thing about it is that it isn't a "solved" issue with one, correct solution, so you can feel like a 19th-century scientist at times :).

If I were Google I'd buy up CKEditor to help compete with Microsoft Office.

Period!

I do not think they are interested. Google Docs/Sheets gets features at a very slow pace -- if Google wanted to compete with Office they could literally pour hundreds of millions and a legion of developers into it. As the only monetization I am aware of is Google Suite perhaps that's not enough to justify it. Unless you want to see ads in Docs / Sheets... also, Google Wave has been cancelled.

Re: Unless you want to see ads in Docs / Sheets

The more you use a product, the more you visit related sites and materials on the web; so yes, ads.

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