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Category Archives: OOo
Good software is boring
There are two astonishing statistics in the latest OpenOffice.org newsletter. The first is that nearly 25m downloads of the software have been reported. 24,800,000 — that’s a lot of 60mb downloads, and the rate is climbing steadily. The second is … Continue reading Continue reading
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Zipper l’addon
One of the nice things about OOo is its international quality. Canadian nationalists seem to assume that it must be Canadian, because so many of the best bits are in French; but as far as I can tell, these contributions … Continue reading Continue reading
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OOo thoughts
I have been using OpenOffice for the last two years as my primary word processor, even for the sort of short articles for which Word 97 is probably better. I wrote the whole worm book in it without any disasters … Continue reading Continue reading
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Idleness, stupidity and cowardice
These are, when I come to think of it, the main reasons for my lack of success in life. I’ve just finished two long magazine pieces, and should have spent yesterday writing a book outline. Instead, I sat down to … Continue reading Continue reading
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A sense of proportion
There’s a (good and interesting) story on Cnet about a man who makes the best guitar strings in the world, and switched to Linux after being busted by the BSA. It wasn’t the money he minded; it was the subsequent … Continue reading Continue reading
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Just idealism from now on
This morning the nerdy feeds were full of the good news that AOL has set up a Mozilla Foundation to “safeguard the independence of Mozilla”. At lunchtime I glanced at the Register, and discovered that AOL just shut Netscape, and … Continue reading Continue reading
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Lost for words
I have just discovered one reason why work has slowed down so much. I have been using a beta version of Openoffice, out of pure inertia, really, and a love of fiddling, and it turns out that the fucking word … Continue reading Continue reading
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