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LibreOffice: What's in it for the users?

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The developers of OpenOffice have united under the banner of the Document Foundation to fork one of the crown jewels of open source software. An OpenOffice fork was imminent, ever since Oracle laid its hands on Sun. But the long-term advantages aren't worth the short-term confusion this project will create for the end user. For one, ...

There's more to open source than Linux

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Follow the mainstream technology media bandwagon, and you'll see the words Open Source, and Linux make an appearance at regular intervals. Thanks to the recent lawsuit frenzy, the terms have been pushed into the limelight. But do they know what they are talking about? The words have been diluted by the media. Open can mean so ...