Our new interview with an independent OpenOffice.org contributor
Read more »Interview with Non-Sun OpenOffice.org Contributor, Charles-H. Schulz
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Why is OpenOffice "profoundly sick"?
OpenOffice.org developer and Novell employee Michael Meeks calls OpenOffice "profoundly sick" and chides Sun for retaining too much control over the project for its own good. He's right, and here's why.
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Sun Responds — Gently — to Novell’s OpenOffice.org FUD
Sun explains the importance of quality assurance in OpenOffice.org
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Open Office.org Annoyances, Needs Java
This is perhaps the most annoying thing about Open Office.org. Why do I need Java Runtime for OpenOffice to export a document into HTML format. Duh!
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OpenOffice.org compatible Labels from WorldLabel
A label collection created in cooperation with ColourLovers.com. The collection includes hundreds of free CD and address labels you can personalize for use with OpenOffice.org.
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The cost of free
Furious! This describes the response of a portion of the Dutch free and open source afficionados when hearing about the idea that OpenOffice.org might get advertisements as part of the binary package. Jonathan Schwartz (Sun Microsystems), who launched the idea on his weblog (and already retracted it), was aware the idea could cause a furor.
Read more »How to fix OpenOffice.org requires JRE error on Ubuntu
I have the latest Java Runtime Environment installed but this error always comes up when I'm trying to export my writer document to html/xhtml.
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Meeting OpenOffice.org developers
Although OpenOffice.org is an open source project with its own community, the core team that does the bulk of the actual coding and quality assurance is based in Hamburg, Germany. Recently, I had a chance to visit the developers behind this key open source project.
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OpenOffice.org 3.0: 3,009,832 downloads in one week
From the official announcement on Monday 13th October at 09:00 UTC, to midnight on Sunday 20th October, OpenOffice.org 3.0 recorded an astonishing three million downloads via the Bouncer.
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Released
Just in time for its (and my) birthday, OpenOffice.org 3.0 was officially released today, after several builds had been found on the FTP sites several weeks before.
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Installing OpenOffice.org 3.0
OpenOffice.org 3.0 is out, and if you don't want to wait till it appears in your distro's repositories, you can install it manually. Here is how.
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Venezuela adopts ODF for government
The South American nation of Venezuela is the latest country to adopt the Open Document Format (ODF) as a national standard
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Five Useful Extensions for OpenOffice.org
Want to expand OpenOffice.org's default functionality? The official extension repository has quite a few extensions you can use to add some nifty features to the productivity suite. Precisely which extensions you might find useful depends, of course, on your particular needs, but there are at least five extensions that deserve a closer look no matter how you use OpenOffice.org.
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OpenOffice.org 3.0: What to Expect?
Around 3 month ago OpenOffice.org released its 2.4 boasting quite an impressive arsenal of advancements. However if you thought 2.4 was major release, then you have seen nothing! Come September, OpenOffice.org will release it’s 3.0 version!
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Microsoft Fights OpenOffice.org and ODF Using FUD, Technical Problems
Microsoft returns intimidating error messages to those intending to open ODF; Notepad works where OpenOffice.org fails in Vista
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