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On 15 Jul 2012 14:51:01 GMT, notbob wrote:

On 2012-07-15, Oren wrote:


Open Office is free (open source) and just as good (better) as MS
Office, plus compatible. No cost, ever.


You might prefer to go with LibreOffice, as OO needs some plug-ins:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari..._office_suites

nb


Thanks for that link. The other day I checked for updates for OO and
was pointed to "Apache" OO. From the link you gave, it makes sense
what happened. OO is now under the Apache Foundation. The predecessor
of LibreOffice is OpenOffice.