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Free OpenOffice.org Training Videos

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-less-reason-not-to-switch dept.

Rollie Hawk writes "Having trouble converting your family and office mates into OpenOffice devotees? NewsForge (Owned by the same people that bring you Slashdot) can now help you convince the visual learners around you that they can do it. NewsForge is releasing a series of free video segments that demonstrate OpenOffice in action from installation to day-to-day use. According to the site, these clips will play on any browser on any operating system as long as Flash is available. One practical topic that should be particularly interesting to the would-be business converts is 'making a slide presentation in a hurry.'"

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  1. Re:RAM Installation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Maybe you could follow his lead and produce a video on how to troll and spread fud.

  2. Re:My brother refused to try OpenOffice.org by westlake · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    My brother refused to try OpenOffice.org...until he started working for me. On his machine I did not give him a choice - for his office apps he can use OpenOffice.org or simply not work.

    Tales of force and fraud within one's own family do not endear me to the Geek or make the move to "free and open source" more palatable.

  3. WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY KNOW??!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You fucking open source people!!?? What do you know??!! Why is smooth scrolling with firefox browser at least 20 times slower than with INTERNET EXPLORER that was released aboout 5 years ago??! Why can't you make use of today's 3D GFX adapters???!! You say Nvidia has drivers but why is X so fucking slow compared to Windows???!!! WHY???!!! ANYONE CARE TO EXPLAIN??!!

  4. Re:Thank you! by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If they were made by the MS Office team, you'd come up with some complaint and get modded up for it, like here

    http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=165832&cid= 13834663

    but for anything Open Source, you post some content free praise like this and get modded up for that.

    Well congratulations, but what's the point? Do you really anyone is going to switch to OSS because of your propaganda post on /.? Software is a tool made by engineers. It's not as if everything done by one group is bad, or that everything done by another group is good. Even worse, zealots like you actually make things worse for the stuff you hype.

    --
    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
  5. Re:Shitty videos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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