Can OpenOffice.org be trusted. What will Sun do to the package if it becomes more popular than office?
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Yes OpenOffice is a complete trustworthy application. It may not be as fancy looking as MS Office latest version  but it offers many features which office does not (eg integrated PDF creator). Then local language support also have come up into it now. I have been using OpenOffice in my enetrprise for the past 2 years and there is not any issue at least in terms of the s/w. The only thing is tht users need to be trained a bit on it. Coz the attitude of ppl being "Its free so it would be featureless and non worty".\nYour concern aboout SUN is gennuine although. But If u read the policy of SUN regarding OpenOffice u ll be satisfied as it clearly says the difference b/w the free n paid version and it would continue to remain like tht. Then many unviersites of US are activly involved in developing OpenOffice so as to let it be free. \nSo all in all go ahead and make ur decision about OpenOffice
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Yes, you can pirate open source software. Even open source software has licensing requirements, and if you violate the terms of the license, you have pirated it.\n\nFor example, the GNU Lesser General Public License, which is the license OpenOffice uses, does not allow you to take code without credit, or modify code without crediting the original code's author, or to make changes to code without noting your changes, and you cannot replace the effects of functions in the root classes.\n\nIf you did any of that, you would be pirating the software.\n\nDepending on the Linux distro, different licensing schemes apply, as well.\n\nThat said, no, proprietary software isn't the opposite of legal software. All software is effectively built upon something else's license; if not the OS, then a compiler or an IDE or some other such product. All of those are licensed, unless you built, from scratch, your own OS, programs, etc.
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You can't -- without exposing yourself to USA Federal felony charges for copyright violation. Penalties are severe if convicted. You can buy MS-Office at a very low price from different software companies - check your spam email for references.  You can legally get "OpenOffice" from OpenOffice.org for free or almost free (cost of cd's).
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download OpenOffice. It is free and compatible with xls files.
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you could always use open office if you don't want to part with any money and it is Microsoft compatible
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Sun release the source code for StarOffice to the open source community at version 6.0. After a little tinkering, this became OpenOffice.org 1.0. Sun now subsidizes the development of OpenOffice.org, and uses the OpenOffice.org codebase for StarOffice. The only significant difference between the two is that StarOffice has more templates and a larger clip art gallery. OpenOffice.org 1.0 was a wee bit buggy, but with the release of 2.0.1 I haven't had any trouble with it. I would highly recommend OpenOffice over StarOffice since it is free and you would get essentially the same program either way.
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Openoffice is a free open source office program. It includes a spreadsheet program called calc.\nTim
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I use Open Office suite(free ,download)\ntried msoffice suite(not free)&free "viewers" from microsoft\n\ni realised that openoffice is better(supports more formatting,extensions)\nfor more info \nhttp://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,6304,00.asp\n\ntry\nhttp://numsum.com/\n(its not that professional, and need u to sign up)
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You can freely download the Star Office ver 8 from the following site at SUN....Star office includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, etc....\nhttp://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp\n...OOOPS... Just checked it out and now they want to charge for it....Sorry! Use to be free....\nTry http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
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If i am not mistaken, Office 2007 suite is still under beta and cannot be purchased. this product is still being finalized so you can't buy it yet. You might be able to download the beta and test it out, but be carefull because it is a 'beta' - ie, a test release and not a full production/'bug free' software..
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Hi, if you go to the OpenOffice site you can download and install the mac verison.   OpenOffice is 'open source' software that provides all the funcions of MS Office and support all the same file formats that Office supports.  You can find complete information here: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/\n\nGood Luck
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I have tried 3 alternatives. I will list them in order of compatability with MS Office.\n\n1. Open Office - you said to exclude this but it is by far the most compatible to use instead of MS Office. There are usually no issues opening any of the file types.\n\n2. Ability Office - Nice cheap and seems to work well. Definatly not a bad alternative. we found a few bugs opening spreadsheets, but that was for the most part the only issue we had.\n\n3. Star Office(sun microsystems) - An alterative that we did not look to much into. We were warned off by other people that were using it. \n\nhope this helps...
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If you do that, it would be illegal.  I use OpenOffice, it's completely free and will open, edit and save as MS Word format.
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MicroSoft Publisher, or Coral
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The easiest way is to download a free program called OpenOffice.org.  This gives you access to an excellent set of tools.  You can learn more by clicking on the OpenOffice.org link.  The project is very mature and fully compatible with Microsoft Office.
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yes open office, its free and better then windows and still supports windows formats.\n\nhttp://www.openoffice.org/
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Here are the requirements for open office to work properly:  \n\nWindows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2 or higher), Windows XP, Windows 2003 \n128 Mbytes RAM \n200 Mbytes available disk space \n800 x 600 or higher resolution with at least 256 colours