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RedOffice 4.0 Beta Updates OpenOffice UI

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-is-it-better dept.

Johannes Eva writes "As IBM Lotus Symphony shows its first public version 1.0, the Chinese OpenOffice.org derivative RedOffice offers the first beta of its new version 4.0. The open source RedOffice gets a new UI inspired from Microsoft Office 2007, with a vertical 'ribbon.' Is this the future of OpenOffice.org?"

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  1. Its not gonna make it.... by tecker · · Score: 3, Informative

    The server is bleeding bad. Less then 20 Posts and its already down. Be Kind and use the cache

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  2. Re:Bizarre Screenshot From Writer by tijmentiming · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Quick brown fox is the sentence to show all the available characters in the english language. Every other language has it's own sentence. It's called a Pangram: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram

  3. Re:Language Confusion? by bloodninja · · Score: 5, Informative

    An article written in English showing a Chinese program being installed on a French OS. No. It's an article written in English showing a Chinese program being installed on a French virtual machine running in a Spanish OS.

    Fuck.
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  4. Re:Microsoft by jaxtherat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Whoever modded that 'Flamebait' should have moded that 'Insightful'.

    Speaking as someone who used to live behind the Iron Curtain, and DAILY thanks his parents for emigrating to Australia.

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  5. Re:Oh no... by Falstius · · Score: 2, Informative

    Considering how badly they pronounced the Chinese, it would have gotten past the Chinese sensors.

    "dog ten"[bleep]

  6. Re:Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    That, or they will just leach and give nothing back. Why would they bother?

    In the case of patches to FOSS software, they can either maintain their own patches forever, with the possibility of them breaking at every release; or they can feed them upstream and have someone else maintain them. That's why.