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One Year Of OpenOffice

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-a-burpy-baby-you-have dept.

no parity writes "Last year on October 13, much of the source to Sun's StarOffice was released as the OpenOffice project. They have set up a birthday page to celebrate what they have achieved in that one year - yes, it prints, spellchecks and has online help. Keep up the good work, guys!" Yep - and my installation still spits up, too. *grin*

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  1. Thank God for Open Office! by Roofus · · Score: 3, Funny


    I just checked out news.com - Guess what one of the headlines are?

    Anthrax found in Microsoft office

    Can the DOJ show that MS does harm consumers now?

  2. Re:The funny part is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Are you sure that this wasn't just that someone said "hey - someone's sent me some (white) powder stuff - come and have a sniff!"

    Hmmmm....

    Antrtax isn't good - especially if it's in your pick and mix!

  3. One year of OpenOffice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, presumably they're talking about the wait-time for the damned thing to load. Has anyone actually gotten around to using it yet?

  4. spits up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    "Spits up" - Presumably that's the opposite of "sucks" ?

    --

    Come on editors - the record is two sps in the first two words of the title.
    Youve(*) gotta be able to beat that ?

    (*) Hey, I spik yer languige

  5. Re:I spit on Allah today. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I made fun of a certain poster who's to stupid to spell `way of life' correctly. What have YOU done?