Why don't we talk about community edition office kits?

July 15, Community OpenOffice.org
3.0 (the second beta version) was released, but the domestic media did not pay enough attention to it or wrote it down. In the face of this Community edition office kit, some people call it "Free Software" with contempt. Why don't we talk about this community edition office suite? Why can't we avoid the plague?

Today, globally,CodeThe FOSS project with the largest scale and development difficulty is the Community edition office suite OpenOffice.org, which integrates a large number of Free Software innovations. Its success or failure affects the fate of the entire international free software movement. To be fair, how to treat Community version OpenOffice.org is the line between free software and private software.

Community edition office suite OpenOffice.org, to be released on March 13, September this year
3.0 is a global event. The new version has the following new features:

1. For the first time
Three major operating systems: OS and Linux;

2. Support for ODF
1.2 latest version, more widely used;

3. Enable Microsoft Office
2007 created documents;

4. The drag function of the rectangular image box;

5. workbooks allow multiple users to work collaboratively to avoid data conflicts;

6. Scale-up of workbooks by 4 times (increased to 1024 columns );

7. Multiple pages are displayed at the same time;

8. Improved the page annotation function;

9. Directly embed slides and process charts;

10. Supports the footer;

11. Added extended resource libraries, such as binding calendars, emails, and wikis;

12. added the PDF file editing function.

These new functions are hard-won, and have surpassed Microsoft's office in many aspects.
2007 Office suite. As you know, Microsoft Vista's business service package (SP1) is priced at $199.95, while Microsoft Office
The price for the 2007 Professional Edition is USD 329.95, and the sum of the two is USD 529.90. It is no wonder that in economically developed regions in North America and Europe, people are paying more and more attention to free software packages and office kits OpenOffice.org as the economy declines.
Release of 3.0. Piracy is everywhere, and people naturally don't care about the legal use of software.

According to Alan, ISO Secretary-General, June 26
According to Bryden's speech to Reuters (full text), from the global perspective of ISO work, appeals from four countries are not advisable, resulting in Michael
Desmond published in July 15Article"The battle on ooxml cannot be back to the human world" (meaning that the ISO rejects the appeals from four countries will surely succeed ). In September, we will face the two world standards of documentation, open
XML and ODF, as well as related office kits: Microsoft Office
2007 and Community version OpenOffice.org
3.0. We must not hide our eyes with our hands, but continue to comfort ourselves without looking at external situations. Instead, we must face this harsh reality.

(Note: OpenOffice.org
The official version 3.0 is pre-installed on the self-starting USB flash drive .)