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Old 11-06-2003, 12:01 PM   #1
hot_pastrami
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OpenOffice.org... able to unseat MS Office yet?

Microsoft Office
-Office 2003 Standard Edition: $399.99 (at CompUSA)
-Office 2003 Standard Edition Upgrade: $239.99
-Created by one of the most evil companies ever to smear the Earth (Microsoft)
-Closed source
-An End-User License Agreement that allows Bill Gates to eat your babies.

OpenOffice.org
-OpenOffice 1.1: $0 (www.openoffice.org)
-OpenOffice 1.1 Upgrade: $0
-Created by a less evil company (Sun)
-Open source
-Licensed under the LGPL (allows Richard Stallman to allow other people to eat your babies)

I've been using MSOffice and (occasionally) WordPerfect Office for years. I just tried the new version of OpenOffice 1.1, and so far, it's done everything I need. It opens MSOffice documents without a hitch, with only minor, occsaional quirks in the conversion. It also saves files as MSOffice with only a few minor problems.

So far, it has had every feature I've needed. And it's free. And it's open-source. And it's multi-platform. I'll take it.

Anybody else tried it yet? Problems?
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