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DEL.ICIO.USGood news for a fine free program
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Now this is interesting in a nerdish sort of way. OpenOffice.org is a pretty good suite of tools: word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program.
That’s the same basic selection of programs you get with Microsoft Office. The only differences: Microsoft Office is a bit better, OpenOffice.org is very much freer. It’s a free collection of programs that many of my readers really like. And my acquaintance Clark Howard endorses and uses OpenOffice.org (no surprise there since it’s free).
Anyway, you can click on this link to read a story saying that IBM has decided to start helping OpenOffice.org. It will dedicate 35 of its programmers to help as well as use some of the code itself.
That should really give OpenOffice.org a boost and - hey - I guess IBM wouldn’t be broken hearted if that put a dent in the sales of Microsoft’s Office suite of programs.
If OpenOffice.org interests you, you can use this link to download the free group of programs.
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