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Aqua OpenOffice is Shaping up

July 3, 2007 – 11:22 am

The Mac OpenOffice team released the second snapshot of the Aqua (X11 free) version of OpenOffice today. While there is more to be done before it is ready for people to use in a reliable and easy fashion, it is really making headway. The big thing is that you can print from OpenOffice now. That’s [...]

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Aqua OpenOffice Around the Corner

April 17, 2007 – 5:48 pm

Well, it’s slightly old news but the day mac users see an aqua version OpenOfice is getting closer. The timeline that was updated on 2007, March 24th, says we’ll be seeing the earlier version soon.
May 2007

Present a downloadable public Aqua version, working as alpha (not complete, with missing features to be implemented later)
Start QA using [...]

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Open-Source is Good for Students (Paris gets it)

February 10, 2007 – 2:02 pm

This is news from last week, but it’s something worth thinking about. The Ile-de-France district in Paris is giving away 175,000 USB memory sticks load with open-source software to students. CNet reports:
The portable office will include the office software suite, an Internet browser, an e-mail client, an instant-messaging client, and audio [...]

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