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Open Office - [discuss] What if Microsoft went out and bought OpenOffice.org

[discuss] What if Microsoft went out and bought OpenOffice.org

Posted: 27 Feb 2006 04:23 AM PST

Yes, it would slow things down for a while, but as Robert mentioned OOo
would probably just fork and there would be a substantial delay while
things get re-organized.

MS had been bothering Sun earlier, but I think that it's more likely that
this is part of or an offshoot from the MSO 2007 advertising campaigns.
We had those articles which Louis had to shoot down recently and now this.

If OOo (or any other producitvity suite) gains significantly in market
share, it will not be possible to charge monopoly rents for MSO and when
those 80% profit margins go away it may be enough to push MS into the red
(again[1] or for good). At which point, the market will open up again.

-Lars
[1] http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=230106

Lars Nooden (org)
Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.



On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Ian Lynch wrote: 

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[discuss] Why do you force me to use M$ Excel???

Posted: 26 Feb 2006 03:11 AM PST

If you read my post thoroughly, you'll see that I wrote the EQUATION of
the regression line. If one can make it appear in the chart, it sure
makes one the trickiest and most undocumented features I've ever bumped
into..or I'm very stupid, which I'd like to imagine I'm not.


Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:59:02 -0500
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Esfandiar Agah wrote: 

Can you be a little more specific? I certainly had no trouble making a
regression line in OOo last year when I was keeping daily watch on my
weight while undergoing radiation therapy.

--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"

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[discuss] bug with letters (openoffice calc)

Posted: 25 Feb 2006 10:19 AM PST

"Tony Pursell" wrote:
 

You can partially do this now.

Press F-11 to select the Stylelist, select "Default" or any other
style, right-click, select "Modify", select the "Font" tab, and set the
Language to "[None]" indicating you don't want any language processing
done when that style is applied, no spell checking and no
autocorrection.

But this does not stop the last two tabs in Autocorrection from doing
what they've been set up to do. Perhaps all of Autocorrection should be
turned for a style with the '[None]' language attribute.

Jallan

[discuss] OpenOffice Feature Suggestion: Mind-mapping Software

Posted: 24 Feb 2006 04:00 PM PST

true, my bad:
http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/kdissert/

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:14:06 -0600, Rigel <com> wrote:
 



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Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org

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[discuss] simple question

Posted: 24 Feb 2006 03:55 PM PST

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Well there is a pr0ject management pr0ject at http://oopm.openoffice.org

On 2/27/06, Paul Douglas Franklin <org> wrote: 


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Alexandro Colorado

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[discuss] Outlook like application

Posted: 23 Feb 2006 10:54 AM PST

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 21:31 -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: 

Yep, I use Evolution on Linux and when it get ported to Windows I'll get
rid of Outlook and use it on my Windows laptop. I can't say there is
anything in Outlook I need that Evolution doesn't provide.

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Ian Lynch
www.theINGOTs.org
www.opendocumentfellowship.org
www.schoolforge.org.uk


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[discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

Posted: 22 Feb 2006 03:06 PM PST

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Daniel,

Modern computers have gotten very good at generating documents.
So good in fact current office workers are drowning in them, trying to
set up decent workflows in the fat station world windows inflicted on us
is not fun anymore (when networking was poor at least people finished
documents instead of sending them to everyone as soon as they add a new
paragraph). Why do you think google desktop search is so popular ?

Intranet web app means you only need to coordinate a few servers instead
of worrying about every single computer on the network. You can use nas,
ldap, etc easily.

In the old "thin client" thin client talked to a big mainframe which
centralised processing. Then everything was broken up to do client-side
processing. Now we're going back to server-side, except the servers are
not big mainframes anymore but lots of small servers talking to one
another.

The only question is if we're moving to servers glued to clients via
proprietary tech like sharepoint or to a pure Internet-like HTTP model.

(consumer media hubs/wifi hubs... work the same way BTW. People are so
sick of setting up fat stations they buy what's actually small home
servers to offload fat client maintenance pains)

Regards,

--=20
Nicolas Mailhot

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[discuss] people selling OpenOffice on ebay

Posted: 20 Feb 2006 11:17 AM PST

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