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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. Old news by RelliK · · Score: 2, Troll

    Anthrax was in Microsoft Office for a long time. But most people called it "The Clippy..."

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  2. Re:OpenOffice needs MacOS X programmers! by duffbeer703 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would be happy to contribute my extensive skillset to te OpenOffice movement.

    I posess over 10 years of devlopment experience with Mac OS X and 15 years of Java and 20 years of Linux development expertise.

    Check out my homepage at http://www.goatse.cx

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  3. A suggestion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    What OpenOffice really needs is to drop the proprietary build depends. It currently depends on JDK 1.3.1.

    The harm in this is that free software people aren't going to help because it requires them to use non-free software to compile it. And many people who don't mind using proprietary software are probably not going to be much help.

    OpenOffice really needs to drop the JDK and zip compression depends. What's wrong with using gzip and ?

    Since it's GPL'd, does anyone have a tree setup to take out the proprietary depends?

  4. No linux support by BEHiker57W · · Score: 0, Troll

    If this OpenOffice supports linux, then why
    does each user require his own installation?

    Shouldn't it be possible (at 250 MB+ per user)
    to share some of those files? Or is the OO/SO
    team committed to a world without user identities
    and effective multi-user security? That is, a
    Windoze(tm)-everywhere world?

    -Brian

  5. Re:You should be ashamed... by Sean_Tyler · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why? They are still evil. Period. End of story.

    Yo, this is microsoft. It's not like we are talking about a company that gives a rat's ass about anyone or anything other than it's quarterly profit margin.

    "God will know his own." to close an appropriate quote.

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