OpenOffice.org
February 23, 2007
About
To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. OpenOffice.org is a free Office suite like Microsoft Office which has features to create documents such as: Text documents, spreadsheets, slide shows etc… Allowing users to be able to create those type of documents without having to pay for software.
Source Code
A page on the OpenOffice.org site allows the user to download the source code, as well as an add-on to OpenOffice.org it’s self for users to create add-ons. Click here for the page to get the files for the most stable version of OpenOffice.org.
Price
OpenOffice.org is a free download.
License
OpenOffice.org uses the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License).
The product has the affect of rapid development to help create more of a community to help compete with the more dominate product i.e. Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org is attempting to be an alternative to the expensive applications.
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Garrett | February 23, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Openoffice needs X11 to run on OSX which is a pain. So OpenOSX Office is perhaps a better alternative here: http://openosx.com/office/
or better still NeoOffice here: http://download.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
downloadable and it has a powerpoint equivalent
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Fitzjohn | February 24, 2007 at 10:07 am
oh right, I don’t know alot about Macs so don’t know what X11 is.
Google has an online office suite, not sure how good it is.
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Garrett | February 24, 2007 at 12:27 pm
X11 is a windowing system for OSX – it makes windows for applications to run inside of. you would think thats simple enough but apparently not. I think it was a unix thing originally but it means you install X11 and your app, lauch X11 first and then your app and it will run inside of X11.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/