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  1. Legitimate Office Suite - openoffice.org by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage (OGA)

    If you want a legitimate and genuine office suite, without the handcuffs.

    http://openoffice.org/
    -or-
    http://abisource.org/

  2. Re:Dear John by dedazo · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Encouraging OEMs to Beautify Computers
    I was happy with the functionality of office five years ago.
    What exactly prevents you from running Office 2000 still?

    Why should I need to buy it again?
    You tell us. Why?

    Hello, Open Office.
    Well, since OO is kinda equivalent to Office 97 I don't think you'll be very happy with it. Unless all you're doing is writing letters and whatnot, in which case you could potentially be happy with WordPad or failing that AbiWord, wich is an excellent general-purpose word processor that doesn't carry 300MB of bloat along.

    If you don't need Microsoft Office then there's simply no reason to buy it. OTOH, if you do need it my experience is that it's worth every penny of those $300 or whatever it goes for these days.

  3. Re:I miss word processors... by Knome_fan · · Score: 1 · on 10 Technologies MIA

    http://www.abisource.org/

  4. Abiword by Hal+XP · · Score: 1 · on At Long Last, NeoOffice/J 1.1 Released
    Abiword is a much lighter program for MacOSX. Of course it's just a word processor. But I've never yet met a person who has any real need for a spreasheet which couldn't be filled in with Abiword's table feature.

    But if you're looking for the kitchen sink, some people have apparently ported various Gnome office apps into an integrated bundle. The company behind the offering appears to have turned the traditional definition of free on its head. The software is free in the GNU sense, but you're charged $30 for a download of the (pre-built) binaries. I still need to check the site if there are patches available for free download, or if the company simply used some exotic compiler that would make it extremely difficult (or expensive) to (legally) roll out your own executables.

  5. Re:fluxbox by Hal+XP · · Score: 0, Troll · on E17 Available From CVS
    Making fluxbox and its kin usable winds up requiring I run half a dozen other apps. Xfce is those apps, bundled together. You can think of it as Gnome done right.

    Incredible! Does this mean a base installation of XFce includes Firefox, Abiword, Emacs, GVim, The Gimp, GPhoto, Inkscape and Scribus? These are the apps I require in order to make Fluxbox usable.

  6. Bring out the Gimp by gnugnugnu · · Score: 1 · on The Best of Windows Open Source Software?
    The Gimp is an obvious choice, as are Mozilla, Abiword, Putty, OpenOffice, Vim, maybe also Activestate Komodo, but i am running out of suggestions so maybe take a look at Eclipse from IBM

    Thanks to Tor Lillqvist for making Gimp for windows possible.


    I eagerly await the day when i can include GoBe Productive on this list, it is really 'suite' (if you will forgive the pun).

  7. Re:Good M$ by mnordstr · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft: The Next Investigations

    1) please don't say star office. just don't. this whole shell thing that takes over my desktop just to view a document. t-h-e v-e-r-y s-l-o-w i-n-t-e-r-f-a-c-e.

    If you want lightweight, try AbiWord. It's fast, reliable and easy to use. Come to think of it, it's alot easier than Word (which in my opinion is one of the most difficult programs ever invented).
    And the KOffice package is quite cool, and after a few versions it might become excellent. If you think StarOffice is slow, you might want to try out OpenOffice.org, which is the new open source version of StarOffice (might be faster, haven't tried it out yet).

    ...i can schedule a meeting with 8 people all ot once by just checking their diary availability...

    Ever heard of Netscape Calendar? That's the same thing, you can schedule meeting in others calendars, etc.

    And the most beautiful thing is that if you don't like something in a product, you can always edit the code and recompile. Think about how many lives (or nerves) one could have saved if Outlook was open source. You don't like viruses? Here's a nice little patch that disables all the nasty security holes in your Outlook.

  8. Thoughs on the Mozilla C++ Portability Guidelines by kevina · · Score: 1 · on Ask Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++

    What do you think of the Mozilla C++ Portability Guidelines? My personal view is that the guidelines can be summed up in one sentence, "Program in the dark ages of C++". Unfortunately there still seams to be a need for it. Because so many major C++ projects still go by similar guidelines, Mozilla and AbiSource come to mind, I fear that my Aspell project will never get used by them and in general does not used nearly as much as it could.

    Do you think that that the portibility guidelines are still needed?