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[users] Re: Downloading extra copies

2011-12-22 Thread James Knott


Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
A little more history: Star Division in Germany - Hamburg I believe - 
created Star Office; the company was subsequently bought by Sun who 
then made the code open source, leading to Open Office.


Many years ago, I installed Star Office for OS/2.  There is still a 
relatively current OS/2 version available through Serenity Systems.  
These days, I run LibreOffice on Linux, as that's what came with the 
Linux distro I use.



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[users] Re: Downloading extra copies

2011-12-22 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook


On 21/12/11 22:04, Tim Deaton wrote:

*OpenOffice* (www.openoffice.org) and it's more-updated descendant
*LibreOffice* (www.libreoffice.org) are both free software no matter how
many copies you use.

A little history might be in order: Sun Microsystems, which created
*OpenOffice*, was bought by Oracle 2 years ago. Oracle had little use
for *OpenOffice*, so most of those involved in its development created a
new group (The Document Foundation) and used the then-current
*OpenOffice* code as the starting point for *LibreOffice*. Since then,
*LibreOffice* has continued to develop while *OpenOffice* has been in
limbo. Oracle eventually gave the *OpenOffice* code and trademark to the
Apache Foundation, which will probably resume development on
*OpenOffice* in the near future. But as things stand now, *LibreOffice*
is the more up-to-date product.


A little more history: Star Division in Germany - Hamburg I believe - 
created Star Office; the company was subsequently bought by Sun who then 
made the code open source, leading to Open Office.


Peter HB

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[users] Re: Downloading extra copies

2011-12-21 Thread Tim Deaton

Also, you probably want to know this:  The *LibreOffice* list that 
corresponds to users@openoffice.org is us...@global.libreoffice.org.  
The *LibreOffice* list gets a LOT more traffic these days.


-- Tim
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On 12/21/2011 5:04 PM, Tim Deaton wrote:
*OpenOffice* (www.openoffice.org) and it's more-updated descendant 
*LibreOffice* (www.libreoffice.org) are both free software no matter 
how many copies you use.


A little history might be in order: Sun Microsystems, which created 
*OpenOffice*, was bought by Oracle 2 years ago.  Oracle had little use 
for *OpenOffice*, so most of those involved in its development created 
a new group (The Document Foundation) and used the then-current 
*OpenOffice* code as the starting point for *LibreOffice*.  Since 
then, *LibreOffice* has continued to develop while *OpenOffice* has 
been in limbo.  Oracle eventually gave the *OpenOffice* code and 
trademark to the Apache Foundation, which will probably resume 
development on *OpenOffice* in the near future.  But as things stand 
now, *LibreOffice* is the more up-to-date product.

-- Tim
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Plans to prosper you and not to harm you;
Plans to give you hope and a future.
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On 12/20/2011 7:24 PM, Dennis Donohue wrote:

Hello,
I have open office on my computer and it is so good I put it on my 
wife's computer also.  Unfortunately, her computer has just died.  We 
will get her a new machine.  Will we be able to download open office 
on her new machine?  Even though this would mean we have downloaded 3 
copies, we will actually only be using two, as one was killed when 
her old computer died.


Your advice is much appreciated.

Best,
Dennis Donohue
dwdono...@shaw.ca

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[users] Re: Downloading extra copies

2011-12-21 Thread Tim Deaton

*OpenOffice* (www.openoffice.org) and it's more-updated descendant 
*LibreOffice* (www.libreoffice.org) are both free software no matter how 
many copies you use.


A little history might be in order: Sun Microsystems, which created 
*OpenOffice*, was bought by Oracle 2 years ago.  Oracle had little use 
for *OpenOffice*, so most of those involved in its development created a 
new group (The Document Foundation) and used the then-current 
*OpenOffice* code as the starting point for *LibreOffice*.  Since then, 
*LibreOffice* has continued to develop while *OpenOffice* has been in 
limbo.  Oracle eventually gave the *OpenOffice* code and trademark to 
the Apache Foundation, which will probably resume development on 
*OpenOffice* in the near future.  But as things stand now, *LibreOffice* 
is the more up-to-date product.


-- Tim
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I know the plans I have for you:
Plans to prosper you and not to harm you;
Plans to give you hope and a future.
   --- God (Jeremiah 29:11)


On 12/20/2011 7:24 PM, Dennis Donohue wrote:

Hello,
I have open office on my computer and it is so good I put it on my 
wife's computer also.  Unfortunately, her computer has just died.  We 
will get her a new machine.  Will we be able to download open office 
on her new machine?  Even though this would mean we have downloaded 3 
copies, we will actually only be using two, as one was killed when her 
old computer died.


Your advice is much appreciated.

Best,
Dennis Donohue
dwdono...@shaw.ca

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[users] Re: Downloading extra copies

2011-12-21 Thread James Knott


Dennis Donohue wrote:

Hello,
I have open office on my computer and it is so good I put it on my 
wife's computer also.  Unfortunately, her computer has just died.  We 
will get her a new machine.  Will we be able to download open office 
on her new machine?  Even though this would mean we have downloaded 3 
copies, we will actually only be using two, as one was killed when her 
old computer died.


Your advice is much appreciated.



As long as you get it from www.openoffice.org, you can download it as 
often as you wish.  However, if you already have a copy, you can install 
it on as many computers as you like.  I keep a copy of it on a flash 
drive, on my key ring, which I can use to install it other computers for 
friends, work etc.


Please, feel free to pass it around to others, as I do.
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[users] Re: Downloading open office

2011-06-22 Thread Dorothy Trinen

Hi, Rachelle--It's very rarely that I'm able to help anyone with  
anything on this site, but am always getting very generous and  
gracious help.
Perhaps I can be of use here, however, as when I purchased my i-mac a  
year ago, It was limited to a text editor program.  After tryi8ng  
Apple's I-Works program which none of my volunteer org colleagues  
could open, I was advised to download Open Office.org.  That has done  
the trick for me.  It does have a spreadsheet, word processing, etc.  
components.


When I send to my colleagues with Word, I save my Open Office document  
file (".odt") to my own file, and also perform a "Save As" (under the  
"File" Menu) of Open Office, and give it a ".doc" file extension.   
Then I can attach that Open Office .doc file to the e-mail and they  
read it just fine.  It does give you several different Microsoft Word  
versions to pick from, but I usually just pick MSWord 97/2000 and that  
seems to work for everyone.


I do hope this helps you.  If not, Open Office.org also has a support  
program on their website, as well as a User Forum Group.


I have found Open Office a much better program for me than a costly  
Microsoft platform for Apple.


Good Luck.

Dorothy Trinen
On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:54 PM, Rachelle Payne wrote:


Hello,

I have a problem with my macbook and was wondering if downloading  
open office would solve my issue.  Basicly, whenever I want to send  
a document I have typed/created through the application pages  
attached in an email, the recipient can never open it.  Most of the  
time, the person I am sending it to will tell me its because it is  
being sent as a "zip" file as opposed to a normal word file.  A  
friend recommended that I download open office, and use that from  
now on.  Would I still have the same issue?


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[users] Re: Downloading open office

2011-06-14 Thread Larry Gusaas

On 2011/06/13 10:54 PM Rachelle Payne wrote concerning "Downloading open
office":

Hello,

I have a problem with my macbook and was wondering if downloading open office would solve my
issue. Basicly, whenever I want to send a document I have typed/created through the
application pages attached in an email, the recipient can never open it. Most of the time,
the person I am sending it to will tell me its because it is being sent as a "zip" file as
opposed to a normal word file. A friend recommended that I download open office, and use
that from now on. Would I still have the same issue?

Rachelle
They can't open it because they do not have Pages. To send in a format they can read do the
following.

In Pages go to File/Export and choose PDF if the document does not need to be edited by
recipient, or Word if they need to edit it.

Send either the PDF or Word document in your email.

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