"OpenOffice.org is an office suite application available for a number of different computer operating systems. It supports the OpenDocument standard for data interchange as its default file formats, a... More
With Oracle's lawsuit against Google regarding parts of the Java code used in the Android OS drawing interpretation of many different kinds, many of the best columns I'm seeing about it conclude the same thing that we have: Oracle's open source credibility will be forever tarnished. Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth has said as much. Many analysts are seeing that the implications of Oracle's suit stretch far beyond the issue it has with Android. And, as the Acrossad.org blog notes, the OpenOffice suite of open source productivity applications is the next software asset that Oracle oversees to worry about.
LaTeX, pronounced “La-Tec”, is a document preparation language that treats creating many types of document files like constructing a shell script. LaTeX uses a “What You See is What You Mean” interface, far removed from the WYSIWYG word processors like Word and OpenOffice. LaTeX is a programming language, but don’t let that scare you away. Like many things in open source, the learning curve may be steep, but the view from the top is fantastic.
The time has come, following its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, for Oracle to state clearly what it intends to do with Sun's huge portfolio of open source applications, platforms and components. Analysts wondered, before the Sun deal went through, what Oracle's stance would be, and how many job cuts there might be. People are still wondering. If Oracle wants to play its cards right, it should go in the direction of total transparency here.
I downloaded Open Office 2.4.0 then had to download X11. But everytime I try to open OO it closes again promptly. I am running OSX 10.3.9. Is that the correct version of Open Office? Upgrading to a new version of the operating system isn't the solution I would prefer, btw. unless *absolutely* necessary. Thanks!
hi
i have read your fix for this but dont fully understand how to fix it. Am running macbook pro with leopard 10.5.5 and have installed openoffice 2.4 when I try to use it I get that message command timed out and then thats it......cant run openoffice...any help welcome thank you
I recently upgraded to Leopard and everytime I start OOo it gives me a "Command Time Out" error. It doesn't really effect the functionality/performance but it's irritating and I'm sure its a simple fix. Would appreciate your help.
Cheers.
I've downloaded the open office app. from http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/ but everytime I try to start it - it hangs and gives me the X11 window. I am not being able to install it even when I delete the application and re-download and re-install it. Help!!
I tried opening it in Microsoft Word (2007) and it wont work. Tried it in OOO and that doesn't work either. Any ideas on how I could go about doing this? Any plug-ins that would help??
I try to get perfection at any cost. Winning is not the only thing however winning with style class and perfection is everything.