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In response to I resented OOo at first posted by Edna2006:
Correction: that's http://www.openoffice.org. As to its being free (in response to a previous post), the zero cost is only part of the story. The bigger part is that the source code is available and can be modified by anyone, subject to the terms of the license (GPL?). That may not seem to mean much to non-programmers, but it does, because it means that OpenOffice.org (the office software suite) won't die if the sponsors (Sun Microsystems?) and the project team decide to abandon it. Since the source code is available, another sponsor or project team will simply take that source code and continue development.
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