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Aqua OpenOffice for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the aqua-licious dept.

rhetland writes "An article on O'Reilly network discusses the new port of OpenOffice to Mac OS X. The public beta, due out next week, will be posted on the OpenOffice Mac site. I have been waiting for this for months, and can hardly wait."

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  1. OT, but I'm curious... by interactive_civilian · · Score: 3, Interesting
    IANADeveloper but...
    This is still the X11 version. Sure, it'll be nice to try it, but it won't have Mac look and feel, and certainly won't obey the Human Interface Guidelines yet.
    I know the Apple HIG are meant to guide people developing Macintosh software, but why don't more developer's use them to help when designing GUI based software regardless of the platform?

    IMHO, Apple knows what they are talking about when it comes designing an interface, so the HIG seem to be a great resource for anyone to use.So, any of you programmers for windows and *nix pay any attention to them?

    A lot of people talk about trying to get linux on the desktop and how to do it...call me crazy but perhaps if developers kept the HIG in mind it would push things forward quite a bit as far as linux usability goes...

    note: I am not saying the HIG must be followed to the letter but it seems like it would be a great starting point for developers of any GUI based software...

    Any thoughts on this? Can the HIG be a valuable resource for anyone?

    --
    "Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
  2. Re:well, i WOULD be excited about this by volsung · · Score: 3, Interesting
    (I'm also a UT student and cashed in on this deal last week. Still waiting for VMWare to arrive so I can keep XP in an emulator.)

    Yes it is way cheap, but you have some really wonderful clauses in the licensing:

    • If UT decides not to renew their site license with Microsoft, you license is immediately revoked.
    • If you quit the university, your license is revoked.

    At least the license converts to a permanent license if you graduate (your parting gift!).