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Final Version of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X Released

Posted by pudge on from the bye-bye-microsoft dept.

Ant writes "After two years of work, OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X (X11) is golden master and ready for immediate download by all Mac OS X users. This release marks a major milestone. It uses the Unix standard X Window and takes advantage of the immense wealth of open source material. To name but one feature, fonts are anti-aliased, making documents look smooth and clean and wholly professional. If you use Mac OS X there is no reason to wait. This will address your needs. And, as with all in the OpenOffice.org 1.0 family, this free release reads and writes Microsoft Office documents and works freely in heterogeneous environments where one might find Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X machines working side by side. The next step is to finish the Aqua version."

2 of 57 comments (clear)

  1. Why not just pirate MS Office? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  2. openoffice is awful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    It claims to be compatible with Microsoft Office but it fails with a hang or a misrender on reading all but trivial documents: forget including mathematics, forget including scripts, forget including anything that makes Office more than just your basic word processor.

    This assumes that you can even install the thing without it crashing, and that you haven't been fired by the time it's finished loading. The productivity lost in one week by using OO equates to the cost saved by not buying MS Office.

    Please, for the love of god, don't support OpenOffice. I thought Office was MS' jewel in the crown of bloated software, then I discovered it is possible to do worse. If Apple do another "integrate the best tech" as they did for Safari, I think we can be pretty sure it won't be OO.

    What's more, as a Spaniard, it really yanks my chain when fellow Spaniards decide to ego-trip by using a double-barrelled form of their surname. Mr SuÃrez-Potts, please stop posting announcements to the OO announce list with that stupid name. You even put in the fucking accent! It makes you look like an idiot, and I can only conclude that you worry more about transcribing your name in a form that appeals to your ears than releasing a quality product.

    Final thing, why is it that "alternative" platform developers can't grow up? Is it really necessary to call it OpenOffice DOT ORG? Should I call myself Tom.personal from now on? Do people go around saying, "yeah, I bought a copy of OpenOffice dot org dot software from a shop dot com yesterday and it gave me a dot org asm that I could be so pedantic dot adjective to the salesman dot noun without them thinking me petty dot dot"

    E.O.Rant