Once upon a time, Microsoft Word reigned supreme over a kingdom inhabited by the world's most boring software platforms: word processors. But thanks to people like Jason Chen, the 27-year old computer scientist behind Quill, the age of the word processor is finally coming to an end. At its most basic level, Quill is an open-source text editor. It offers many of the same functions as Microsoft Word or Google Documents, like collaborative document editing, but with one crucial difference: you don't need to have all of its functions.

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