Free Office Suite
Open Office Suite is a full office suite that works much like Microsoft’s Office Suite. You can create word documents, spreadsheets, power point presentations and databases much the same as with Microsoft’s Suite. This powerful suite even lets you change a word document into a PDF file or post it on the web as a web page. The best part of this program is that it is free. Use our link (Open Office, under Links, on our home page) to download the program and start using it today.
OpenOffice.org is an Open Source Project. It is sponsored by Sun Microsystems, which is the primary contributor of code to the Project. Over 180,000 people from nearly every curve of the globe have joined this Project with the idea of creating the best possible office suite that all can use. They do so under the auspices of “open source.”
“Open source” means that you can contribute to make the product (and Project) better by joining the community. You can become a subscriber to the mailing lists, a member of the overall Project, or intensify your engagement and join a particular project. You can contribute your insights, your bug findings, your bug fixes, or just your general support. There is no requirement that you be a programmer. Just that you respect the other members of the community and understand that we are very serious about this Project and what it means.
To learn more about the Project, including its organization, please consult these pages:
- http://about.openoffice.org/index.html. This page provides a comprehensive account of the Project, its structure, history, and mission. It also has links to many documents, both technical and nontechnical.
- Development. This section has links to many of the documents supporting development of OpenOffice.org, the product and project.
- Support. OpenOffice.org offers volunteer support; there is also for-fee support (right now, Sun Microsystems offers it)
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