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OpenOffice.org for Mac Delayed Two Years

Posted by pudge on from the gnashing-of-teeth dept.

Athyra writes "According to their Mac porting page, OpenOffice.org will not release a native version of their software for Mac OS X (not counting the X11 version) until 2006. According to the project timeline, no real development can happen again until OpenOffice.org 2.0 hits Windows, Linux, and Solaris in 2005. Looks like Microsoft's got a cozy ride ahead on the Mac side of things for a while."

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  1. Well... by Tempermental · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think Mac has field tested enough viruses yet for OpenOffice to properly develop security on their platform yet...

  2. Re:aaaaaaaaaag!!! by BortQ · · Score: 3, Funny
    Plus I should say that any while us Canadians are quite silly (as can be seen from our prime minister Jean Poutine) it's a big step up from all the fascist americans we've been hearing aboot, eh.

    I like to think of Canada:USA as approximately equivalent to Mac:Windows.

    There's less of us, we're more user-friendly, the 'others' don't even remember about us most of the time, and the form factor is often easier on the eyes.

    In conclusion I invite all the sane macusers out there in /. land to move your asses to Canada already. It's just like a mac: once you try it out for a while you'll never go back.

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  3. Re:Canadian response by rtm1 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Well you've got that right - Newfoundland is basically the area surrounding the highway between Quebec and Nova Scotia. :)

    Sorry if I missed the sarcasm, but are you serious? There is no part of Newfoundland anywhere between Quebec and Nova Scotia. The highway between Quebec and Nova Scotia goes through New Brunswick. If you wanted to go Nova Scotia from Quebec via Newfoundland you'd have to go way the hell up by Labrador, take the ferry across to Newfoundland, drive all the way across the island, and then take another ferry (8 hours at that) to get to Cape Breton. It'd take you a couple of days at best.

    Again, sorry if I missed the sarcasm, but if I didn't set it straight we'd end up with all sorts of silly Americans wandering around the Eastern Townships wondering where the fuck Newfoundland is.

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