Posts Tagged ‘myths-debunked’

Is OpenOffice Drifting Dangerously?

Dana Blankenhorn notes that OpenOffice.org is “drifting,” which certainly seems to be true, although we’ve pointed out that it is definitely still kicking . Without a doubt, now that Oracle has swallowed up Sun Microsystems and is, by default, the new steward of the world’s most popular open source suite of productivity applications, there are questions to be asked about the future of OpenOffice

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Is OpenOffice Drifting Dangerously?

FLOSS Manuals Expands Its Open Source Documentation Effort

It’s been a while since we here at OStatic checked in on FLOSS Manuals , an ambitious effort to produce free, online documentation for open source software that we initially covered in this post . FLOSS Manuals is an excellent learning and reference resource for titles such as OpenOffice, Firefox, Audacity, Blender, Inkscape and more

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FLOSS Manuals Expands Its Open Source Documentation Effort

Are Google’s Productivity Apps Really Competitive With Microsoft’s?

Today, in a piece called ” Google-Microsoft rivalry comes down to clouds or software ,”  ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn considers the specific advantages that Google and Microsoft have relative to each other.

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Are Google’s Productivity Apps Really Competitive With Microsoft’s?