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Happy 3rd Birthday To OpenOffice.org

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-vigor-more-gusto dept.

Milo Fungus writes "OpenOffice.org is three years old today. The birthday page links to interviews and information about OpenOffice.org's push to schools, which is led by Ian Lynch of the Marketing Project. As a happy and satisfied user, I say 'Happy Birthday' with vigor and gusto." Gift idea: give a copy of OpenOffice.org to your boss tomorrow.

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  1. Re:And still no native OS X offering... by Bishop923 · · Score: 5, Informative

    No... The Mac OS X Porting group specifically said that the only reason they haven't been able to port to Cocoa is that they need to change several of the Graphics APIs owned by different parts of the project.

    Since some of these APIs are being revamped anyway(for all platforms), they feel it best to wait until they are finalized, or at least fleshed out enough to allow porting work to begin. This has the two fold advantage of:
    A: They will have some say in the new APIs so MacOSX Concerns can be taken into account
    and
    B: They wont have to waste tons of time porting over obsolete code that will have to be changed anyway.

  2. Spread the word at your school or university by bigberk · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since students and academic folk are poor anyway, and nobody wants to steal from Microsoft, tell others at your school or university about OpenOffice.org.

    I've convinced a couple professors to link to the projects from their web page. Hell, I learned about OpenOffice from school myself. It's a great place to spread awareness of this Office alternative.