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OpenOffice.org 2.0 Released
Da Massive writes "The official release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 has been pushed to the download servers, as of Thursday the 20th." From the article: "OpenDocument is an XML file format for saving office documents such as spreadsheets, memos, charts, and presentations. It was approved as an OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) standard at the beginning of this year. OpenDocument, set as a default in OpenOffice, is cited by proponents as a way of fighting vendor lock-in associated with proprietary formats. Already, it is the required office format for internal archives of the US State of Massachusetts." You can download, or read past coverage including a preview or a comparison with MS Office. Update: 10/20 17:22 GMT by Z : Made date reference more topical.
My milk hasn't expired yet.
...it would be before my milk expired. Well, they are a day late. This is just udderly devastating.
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That's l33t speak for 20th? : )
You can't take the sky from me...
The 10th was on a Monday. Or will the release be next month when the 10th actually falls on Thursday?
I'm confused because the editors didn't even do the smallest amount of fact-checking. Thanks, guys!
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Soon, MS Office will have native support for PDF (like OOo has always had). Now, all they have to do is add support for ODF, give it away free along with the source code, and it will be almost as good as OOo.
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BitTorrent I'm downloading it right now. I've used the beta and RC1 version for months now, and I've only seen it crash once, and I've used it on various computers.
A million Microsoft shareholders cried out in pain today.
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I feel a productivity surge bubbling up inside me.
Software freedom...I love it!
I don't believe it! I only downloaded and installed RC3 4 hours ago. Grrrr.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
It is not in portage yet, therefore it must not exist.
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You've got to just love P2P for things like this. My country mirror is already doing a good impression of a three legged dog but the torrent has more seeds than a farmer at harvest time.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
This is great! Congratulations to the OpenOffice folks. Now all OpenOffice needs is a good vi keymap.
20/10/2005 is the 10th of Vicember in the USA.
My favourite month is emacsember
Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show?
It's been a while since I laughed at one of these... I didn't with this one either.
Probably an American. They'd look at that date and say "tenth of the twentieth month? WTF?" ;)
(Just like I keep wondering why everyone's going on about the 9th of November...)
Yeah, the rest of the world has it right... smallest units to largest units. It's more consistent that way.
This is also why, in Europe, the complete date and time would be given by (as an example):
56:32:11 20/10/2005 (ss:mm:hh dd/mm/yyyy)
(This is, of course, the current time in the Eastern US daylight time zone)
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...you were "pool whoring"?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
(Why are the words java and slow always appearing in the same sentence...)
Dunno. Maybe because you keep putting them together?
I vote we call it Next-August.
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Umm... where do you think that farmers get their seeds? (Other than Monsanto, of course...)
You're just jealous because we have more months than you do and they're all the same length.
And then I noticed where your homepage was set to so I'm guessing you know this better than me. I'll stop being helpful now :).
That expression would have been more appropriate if, you know, you had done anything at all other than plug your own article.
Now before I get modded down, I be to remind whoever might read this that what I am saying is FACT. - bogaboga