Actually, John McCreesh, head of marketing at OpenOffice.org, says that OpenOffice is NOT part of the same patent deal as StarOffice. You can see the link at Sun's Web site here
VLC always had problems with decoding quickly enough. Some of the PCs were old, but not that old. GOM, on the other hand, rarely tells me I'm missing a codec (as Windows Media Player is prone to do) and has zero decompression issues.
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Actually, John McCreesh, head of marketing at OpenOffice.org, says that OpenOffice is NOT part of the same patent deal as StarOffice. You can see the link at Sun's Web site here
VLC always had problems with decoding quickly enough. Some of the PCs were old, but not that old. GOM, on the other hand, rarely tells me I'm missing a codec (as Windows Media Player is prone to do) and has zero decompression issues.