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Article: Suite now out in the open: openoffice.org works on free productivity suite for OS X. (Mac Beat).(OpenOffice.org suite from the OpenOffice.org Source Project )(Brief Article)
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- Macworld
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- April 1, 2003
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It may be hard for some Mac users to imagine accomplishing everyday tasks without Microsoft's ubiquitous Office suite, but that's exactly what the OpenOffice.org Source Project (www.openoffice.org) hopes to let you do. OpenOfice.org is a suite of modules for word processing, spreadsheets, charts, presentations, and drawing. It can read and write Microsoft Office formats--and it's free.
OpenOffice.org is one of many so-called "open," or community-developed, software projects coordinated via the Internet. Once known as StarOffice, the suite was announced for the Mac in 1996 and was turned over to the open project a couple of years ago. The OS X port of ...