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Story: Don't pirate MS-Office: use ours, says OpenOffice.org
Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 11 May 2006, 9:40 PM)
Yes, that's a nice story. My wife bought a laptop and read the licence statement of Microsoft Office's website for the use of Office 2003 on a second computer. It was legitimate under certain circumstances and she complied to this. But at the installation of the software this licence told her that it was bound to one computer only because it was an OEM product, delivered by DELL. So, she aborted the installation. Meanwhile I looked around for prices of Office 2003: €500,-. No way she said for a product already 3 years old. I already knew about StarOffice and looked on the internet and found besides StarOffice, OpenOffice.org. I installed OpenOffice and was baffled. What a good product. You must know that I have 10 years of experience in Microsoft Office products. What is now the next step. I ported her company letters and faxes to OpenOffice.org so she can use it on her laptop. After this positive encounter we decided to support OpenOffice and we'll start building simple solution for OpenOffice.org.
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I use OpenOffice and I find it just as good, if no... Peter Atkins
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The fact is, it doesn't do everything that Office... Paul
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With note to the guy complaining about t... Anonymous
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Well, there is always the Mozilla calendar ap... Lee
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I think OpenOffice would attract a higher adoption... John
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I've been using OOo for two years. I use it for t... Michael Macaluso
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Decision makers should be demanded to disclose in... Arthur B.
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