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OpenOffice Lives, More Involvement Needed

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Linux Pro Magazine; By Britta Wülfing 		Mail this story
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Free office solution OpenOffice.org is still in the best of shape, based on reactions from project members to Novell developer Michael Meeks's recent pessimistic view. The Linux Foundation is one of many who are concerned. All want one thing: more.

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Comments (9)

ColonelPanik ·
You bet it does! Now is the time for OO.org to start targeting niche markets: Law (templates for various court filings) Education Banking/Finance Medical (huge huge field) And everything else.
dinotrac ·
CP --

A good table of authorities (which, I'm afraid, requires more than a template) would go a long way to squeezing into Law.
ColonelPanik ·
dino... But it is doable eh?
dinotrac ·
CP -

Well, WordPerfect had (has) a great one, which is why WP owned law office paperwork for so long.
ColonelPanik ·
And OO.org can do WP files? Please say yes!
dinotrac ·
I don't know if it can, but that would be pretty awesome, actually.

I was thinking more along the lines of OO programmers ought to be able to implement something WP programmers were able to do.
theboomboomcars ·
I know it can open some WP stuff, my sister loved WP and used it for a long time, then she got word and I translated the files for her, for some reason she wouldn't listen when I suggested OO to her.
dinotrac ·
>for some reason she wouldn't listen when I suggested OO to her.

Well, getting her to go from WP to Word may have hurt your credibility...
theboomboomcars ·
That was her decision, I learned that she changed after the fact. And I think it had something to do with the fact that she finished school and her employer required her to use Word for everything...

But yes I hang my head in shame over that.

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