Microsoft/Novell agreement may exclude patent protection for Wine, OpenOffice
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| This means that Microsoft can still sue individual SUSE Linux customers
| who are using products designed to replicate Microsoft products and that
| also infringe on Microsoft's patents.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070529-microsoftnovell-agreement-may-exclude-patent-protection-for-wine-openoffice.html
http://tinyurl.com/25at6e
Doing More With OpenOffice
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| OpenOffice is a popular open source office suite, that other than
| being excellent office suite, lets you extend its functionality
| through extensions. Made popular by tools like Firefox as addons
| or by Wordpress as plugins, these extensions let you add more.
| Unfortunately the OpenOffice extensions are not as popular, but
| they are all the same effective.
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http://ifacethoughts.net/2007/05/27/doing-more-with-openoffice
Also see:
Does Microsoft have Wine in its patent sights?
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=C4D51041-001E-471C-90C0-13D67A507692
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/30/novell-licensed-ms-patents-for-virtualization/
Related:
Do you really need Sun Weblog Publisher?
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| Suddenly, every application on the desktop seems to be adding a
| blogging extension. Sun Microsystems' offering is the Sun Weblog
| Publisher (SWP) for StarOffice and OpenOffice.org.
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http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/12/1912230&from=rss
Microsoft Office rivals advance
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| Rivals to Microsoft's Office productivity suite are sharpening up
| their game. The OpenOffice.org community is planning to add reports
| to its database, while SoftMaker is to extend its productivity
| line-up with a database, presentation tool and scripting language.
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http://www.pcw.co.uk/itweek/news/2188237/microsoft-office-rivals-advance
A new Spring season for OpenOffice.org
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| I found out that OpenOffice.org and Sun in general are in a much better
| shape than they were just 8 months ago. First, Sun is doing better
| financially and they have managed to go back to a volume of sales
| unprecedented since 2001. That's good news, because it means that
| the financial pressure has finally faded away. But Sun's new
| software strategy, which is to open source its whole software
| stack is apparently paying off and that means that OpenOffice.org
| (and ODF, to be sure) has become a central part of Sun's strategy.
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http://www.libervis.com/blogs/5/charles/a_new_spring_season_for_openofficeorg
The GravityZoo OOo porting project
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| When OpenOffice.org is "GravityZood", it will become a suite of
| productivity applications that are always available, online, via a broad
| range of devices. It will be possible to share and collaborate in
| real-time, to switch from one device (e.g. a PC) to another (Mobile)
| device. There will also be no need to save data, because everything you
| produce is saved automatically on the network. There is no need to
| download, install or update, the latest version is just available and
| accessible from any GravityZoo enabled client.
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http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=19660
Next OpenOffice release to include Pentaho BI
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| Open-source business intelligence software vendor Pentaho Corp. is
| hoping a new tie-up unveiled Thursday with the OpenOffice.org
| community and Sun Microsystems Inc. will bring its BI offerings
| to the attention of many more new users.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/041907-next-openoffice-release-to-include.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/ywysvf
And the centre of your desktop is...
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| We had an overwhelming response to our reader poll in this area with over
| 4,800 of you participating, so thanks to those who took the time.
|
| [...]
|
| The only competition at the moment is from open source office suites,
| OpenOffice in particular, which around one in five Reg readers are
| personally using.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/desktop_office_suites/
100,000,000 OpenOffice.org fans can't be wrong
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| Simon's official response explained the business rationale behind
| offering support for OpenOffice.org: "OpenOffice.org has becomep
| henomenally successful, Sun alone has shipped more than 70 million
| copies of OpenOffice.org 2.0," he said. "Out there, there
| are maybe 100 million copies of OpenOffice.org. It would be
| senseless to ignore that opportunity."
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/100000000_openo.html
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