Open Office
OpenOffice is an open source equivalent of MicroS**t Office. It is pretty neat, covers almost all the features that M.S.Word offers, plus it is FREE! That is one thing i like about open sources. You ought not charge for a product 100 times its actual price, just because it has become the standard over the years and no one was bold enough to engage a superior product to it. That is where i really admire Firefox. It is a very good example of Open Source...and i dont think there is any doubt as to how much better it performs over the old I.E!
The software for open office is available here.
The one big con however is that the documents created through open office are not .doc....a standard needs to be built yet for this kind of packages. Till then, one may use any easily available softwares on the net that can convert the open office files to a word document. However, beware if you have too much of formatting...!:-)
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OpenOffice is an open source equivalent of MicroS**t Office. It is pretty neat, covers almost all the features that M.S.Word offers, plus it is FREE! That is one thing i like about open sources. You ought not charge for a product 100 times its actual price, just because it has become the standard over the years and no one was bold enough to engage a superior product to it. That is where i really admire Firefox. It is a very good example of Open Source...and i dont think there is any doubt as to how much better it performs over the old I.E!
The software for open office is available here.
The one big con however is that the documents created through open office are not .doc....a standard needs to be built yet for this kind of packages. Till then, one may use any easily available softwares on the net that can convert the open office files to a word document. However, beware if you have too much of formatting...!:-)
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posted by Sandhya at
2:21 PM
