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PrefaceIt used to be that the saying "You get what you pay for" ranked up there with such indisputable truths as, "What goes up must come down," "Water is wet," and "I had to restart Windows today." But since OpenOffice.org is free, "you get what you pay for" is not only disputable, but down there with "the board of directors said the accounting practices were OK" and "hey, let's form an Internet startup."
OpenOffice.org, the
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This release of OpenOffice.org also has a bunch of enhancements over StarOffice 5.2. We're satisfied and impressed that the developers incorporated lots of good feedback. What goes up must come down. Water is wet. OpenOffice.org is free. (And yes, I really did have to restart Windows today.) |
The CD You Get With This BookThis is the only StarOffice or OpenOffice.org book you can currently get that has the CD along with it. You get the software for every platform, plus a bunch of extras that the OpenOffice.org community has put togethertemplates, macros, examples, etc. Plus you get the Mac OS X Developer version, an alpha build of the software that runs on the love child of Steve Jobs and a UNIX kernel, the built-with-UNIX Mac operating system. For additional extras like templates, created by the authors, come to the authors' web site http://www.getopenoffice.org |