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Opening the Potential of OpenOffice.org

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the coming-a-long-way dept.

[vmlinuz] writes "O'Reillynet is running an article about 'Opening the potential of OpenOffice.org' which explores how anyone can contribute to argubly one of the most important Open Source projects. The article also discusses the importance of a shorter release cycle."

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  1. All the more important... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...now that Office 12 has been demoed. That means the specs for OpenOffice.org 4.0 are almost complete!!

  2. Re:Indeed by DoubleRing · · Score: 5, Funny

    And yet you found the need to bold AND italicize the first word of your comment :P

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  3. Re:Change the default by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...keeping track of changes is not the easiest thing to do in LaTeX.

    man diff, bitch.

  4. Re:Indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can you please explain to this nutjob how I can give my boardroom presentation in vi to maximize visual impact? I really need to get my message through.

  5. Re:Change the default by jshaped · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank you for bringing up LaTeX.
    As a grad student in CS, the benefits of LaTeX are obvious.
    But it's surprising how many educated people still do not understand what LaTeX is or how beneficial it is.
    Example, last semester I turned in a project proposal (written with LaTeX) to a professor.
    His response: "Aren't your margins a bit too big?"
    I was speechless.

  6. OpenOffice.org is great, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Opening the potential of OpenOffice.org takes like 10 minutes on my computer. It's not going to win any awards for speed.

  7. Re:Why not just focus on OO2? by killjoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    " Why even have split development? Most ppl who don't use the current OO aren't not using it b/c of some small bugs, but b/c it lacks major abilites like being able to competantly convert MS formats"

    What you say? Don't you know that office formats are based on XML and are completely open? Anybody can read and write office formats.

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  8. Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    For the love of God, fix the UI.

    Love,
    A Concerned User