Anyone who wants to get out of the Office should check out OpenOffice.org. The not-for-profit organization's mission is to develop, license, and disseminate a suite of open-source word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing software that competes with Microsoft's Office programs. Sun Microsystems helped OpenOffice get off the ground in 2000 by donating some 7.5 million lines of code; Oracle now sponsors OpenOffice. Governed by an elected community council, OpenOffice depends on the contributions of developers and end-users to pursue its projects, identify and fix software bugs, and improve its technology.
OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-sourceoffice software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Great software
OpenOffice.org 3 is the result of over twenty years' software engineering. Designed from the start as a single piece of software, it has a consistency other products cannot match. A completely open development process means that anyone can report bugs, request new features, or enhance the software. The result: OpenOffice.org 3 does everything you want your office software to do, the way you want it to.
Easy to use
OpenOffice.org 3 is easy to learn, and if you're already using another office software package, you'll take to OpenOffice.org 3 straight away. Our world-wide native-language community means that OpenOffice.org 3 is probably available and supported in your own language. And if you already have files from another office package - OpenOffice.org 3 will probably read them with no difficulty.
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it's free
Best of all, OpenOffice.org 3 can be downloaded and used entirely free of any licence fees. OpenOffice.org 3 is released under the LGPL licence. This means you may use it for any purpose - domestic, commercial, educational, public administration. You may install it on as many computers as you like. You may make copies and give them away to family, friends, students, employees - anyone you like.
