Oregon joins states considering open-source legislation
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| The bill as it is currently written appears to more explicitly favor
| the use of free, open-source software such as OpenOffice and its
| native format, Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF),
| than do pending proposals in other states.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=open_source&articleId=9014658&taxonomyId=88&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/2mrumt
Critics disagree on usefulness of OpenOffice's Impress
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| And since OpenOffice's inception in 2000, versions of the software
| have been downloaded more than 49 million times around the world.
| Presumably a lot of people are seeing more pros than cons.
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http://www.dailypress.com/features/family/dp-80453sy0mar27,1,5694721.story?coll=dp-features-familylife&ctrack=1&cset=true
Related:
OpenOffice: More Pros Than Cons
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| I didn't find any bad reviews for the OpenOffice word processor,
| only a mention that it doesn't have a grammar checker. The beauty
| of open source is that you can help make the product better.
| Although the software is based on code acquired by Sun
| Microsystems, the project invites users to offer ideas,
| identify bugs and, if they're technically proficient, offer fixes.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/56341.html
NeoOffice 2.1 [Just Released]
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| NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office applications (including
| word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database
| programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite,
| NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can
| import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office
| programs such as Microsoft Office. Unlike the Mac OS X release
| of OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice does not require the X11 windowing system.
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http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15797/neooffice
100,000,000 OpenOffice.org fans can't be wrong
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| Simon's official response explained the business rationale behind
| offering support for OpenOffice.org: "OpenOffice.org has becomep
| henomenally successful, Sun alone has shipped more than 70 million
| copies of OpenOffice.org 2.0," he said. "Out there, there
| are maybe 100 million copies of OpenOffice.org. It would be
| senseless to ignore that opportunity."
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/100000000_openo.html
OpenOffice.org Issues an Invitation to Dell Computer Corporation
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| OpenOffice.org urges Dell's CEO to respond to customer demand and
| bundle OpenOffice.org's free software alternative to Microsoft
| Office with Dell's computers
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http://prweb.com/releases/2007/3/prweb510567.htm
My Family Photos - and ODF
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| [Sun CEO:] "we're working with Google to ensure interoperability
| between Google's office documents and OpenOffice documents -
| leveraging ODF as an exchange mechanism. Any document created
| in Google's office can be trivially exported to (and soon
| imported from) OpenOffice.
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http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/microsoft_vista_microsoft_office_and
BharateeyaOO.o: Enabling OpenOffice.org for India
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| Today as it stands, BharateeyaOO.o has completed localization of OOo
| in about 15 languages in its labs, of which about 5 are community
| supported. These languages are, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati,
| Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythili,
| Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
|
| Of these about 10 languages have already been submitted upstream
| as patches. OOo 2.1 has support for about 10 languages in its
| source. Our aim is to complete OOo in all 22 scheduled Indian
| languages by December 2007 and we are bang on schedule.
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http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/bharateeyaooo.html
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