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OpenOffice for Mac OS X Developer Build Available

Posted by pudge on from the mmmm-chocolate-babies dept.

colaboy writes "As of today, the folks at OpenOffice.org have successfully built OpenOffice.org 638c for Mac OS X using the X11 windowing system from XFree86.org. It works. They need, more than ever, help to finish it, so that it uses OpenOffice.org 1.0 and Aqua, and is bug-free. Download it now, and join the project and mailing list. Hunt for bugs; test features; make suggestions. They have proven the concept: OpenOffice.org can run--and it looks beautiful--on Mac OS X."

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  1. In the words of Laurie Anderson, "Let X=X" by cei · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Apple seems to have devalued X over the years. Back around 1988-89, there was the Mac II, followed closely by the Mac IIx. Their other big seller at the time was the Mac SE, which, naturally, should have been followed by the Mac SEx. But NOOOOOooo. Instead, they came out with the Mac SE/30. So back then, X=30, and now they're telling us X=10.

    I don't buy it for a second.

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