OpenOffice is still free and is owned by Apache, not Adobe. History from: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Getting_Started/A_short_history_of_OpenOffice.org
"The OpenOffice.org project began when Sun Microsystems released the source code (“blueprints") for its StarOffice® software to the open source community in 2000. This allowed Sun to use the technical expertise and rapid development times of an open-source project in the development of its own software products. All recent versions of Sun's StarOffice use source code developed by the OpenOffice.org community. However, the products do not provide exactly the same features due to the copyrights of third parties that are not compatible with open-source licensing. Read more about OpenOffice.org's history and organization at: http://about.openoffice.org/ Information about StarOffice can be found at: http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/"; Download at: https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html I have only used it sparingly so can't comment on usability or compatibility. But it is FREE! -----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2017 5:23 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Office 2010 Home & Student I had been using LibreOffice but when you are doing book formatting there are so many little quirks and bugs, it drives you crazy. I thought that Adobe was charging for Open Office now? IIRC they bought Open Office, let it languish without development for years, then started charging for it. Haven't looked recently.
