← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Happy Hacker
Thread ID: 20710 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2005-10-20
2005-10-20 18:31 | User Profile
OpenOffice.org 2.0 has just been released. It's a free alternative to MS Office. Money and politics aside, I like it better than MS Office. The big reason you should be using it is because by doing so you're not supporting Microsoft and liberal political agenda. What a good feeling.
2005-10-20 18:33 | User Profile
[quote=Happy Hacker]OpenOffice.org 2.0 has just been released. It's a free alternative to MS Office. Money and politics aside, I like it better than MS Office. The big reason you should be using it is because by doing so you're not supporting Microsoft and liberal political agenda. What a good feeling. Amen to that.:thumbsup: I like it much better because it is being constantly worked on and improved by the open source community.
Here's the link [URL="http://www.openoffice.org/"]Open Office[/URL] .
2005-10-20 19:18 | User Profile
I'm a big supporter of open source software, from OpenOffice to Linux to open web standards. In fact, I think any true conservative should be pro-open source, and I have outlined this viewpoint here -- [URL="http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13201"]http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13201[/URL]
OpenOffice is an excellent office suite. However, if you are looking for something a little lighter (though slightly less full-featured) you might want to check out [URL="http://www.abisource.com"]Abiword[/URL], an open source word processor.
2005-10-20 19:43 | User Profile
I use OpenOffice for all my word processing.
Also, if anyone is looking for an open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshope, The Gnu Image Manipulation Program (the GIMP) is a great graphics editor with support for multiple image layers, transparency, fancy alpha effects, GIF animation, and all the usual bells & whistles. It's also good for doing simple things like cropping and scaling photographs & adjusting light and colour balance. You can even use it to colourise old B&W photographs.
[URL="http://www.gimp.org"]http://www.gimp.org[/URL]
2005-10-20 22:15 | User Profile
I use OpenOffice on Windoze and Linux. For machines with under 128Mb I use abiword and gnumeric (both open source and multi-platform) and GIMP is great!
2005-10-21 04:02 | User Profile
The Gimp RAWKS!! I love it too because as a developer I can create plugins for it. :wub:
2005-10-21 17:18 | User Profile
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