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3 unusual facts about OpenOffice


Adoption of free and open-source software by public institutions

As of 29th January, 2014 the UK government is considering switching from Microsoft Office products to open-source alternatives such as OpenOffice and Google Docs.

Emin Hüseynov

Hüseynov is also the team leader for OpenOffice.org, the Azerbaijani native language project, and co-founder of Azerbaijani Linux User Group.

XDarwin

Programs such as OpenOffice.org use XDarwin to run in the X11 windowing environment, either in a rootless or full-screen mode.


^txt2regex$

The regular expression is generated in the notation used by awk, ed, egrep, Emacs, expect, find, grep, lex, Lisp, MySQL, OpenOffice.org, Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, Procmail, Python, Sed, Tcl, VBscript, Vi, and Vim.

ArchOne

In the three releases, we can find a common selection of software: Firefox, Google Chrome, Skype, KeepassX, Hsoconnect, Gparted, GIMP, OpenOffice.org, VLC, MPlayer (the complete list of packages is available in the home project at sourceforge.net).

Dia:Beacon

Dia:Beacon occupies a former Nabisco box-printing facility that was renovated by Dia with artist Robert Irwin and architects Alan Koch, Lyn Rice, Galia Solomonoff and Linda Taalman, then of OpenOffice.

Galia Solomonoff

Prior to founding SAS, Solomonoff worked with OMA/Rem Koolhaas (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), Rafael Viñoly, and Bernard Tschumi Architects, as well as OpenOffice, which she co-founded.

GendBuntu

2004 - OpenOffice.org software replaces 20,000 copies of the Microsoft Office suite on Gendarmerie computers, with the transfer of all 90,000 office suites being completed in 2005.

Jaakko Wallenius

The Finnish publishing company Edita published in the year 2002 Jaakko Wallenius's book on OpenOffice.org– productivity suite called ”OpenOffice tehokäyttöön” of which the second edition was published with the name ”OpenOffice – koulutuspaketti” in the year 2004.

Komputeko

Others who have availed themselves of Komputeko include Cindy McKee's KDE and Joomla translation teams, Esperanto Wikipedia founder Chuck Smith's Drupal translation and the former Amikumu projects, Tim Morley's OpenOffice.org translation team, Guillaume Savaton's GNOME translation team, the translation teams for Plone and Xfce, and Joop Kiefte's Ubuntu translation team.

MyFax

Some of the features of MyFax include the ability to send and receive faxes by email and through the internet, as well as send faxes directly from Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Windows-based applications including Google Docs, OpenOffice.org, and Intuit QuickBooks.

New Era High School

The computer system, especially present in the Secondary Section, is Open Source based - highlighting Mandriva 2007 and Fedora Core 7, OpenOffice.org, and GIMP.

Ojuba Linux

Ojuba 4 doesn't have Zekr Quranic study tool pre-installed or LibreOffice /OpenOffice.org for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases.

OpenFormula

OpenFormula is being developed by representatives from many different implementors, working together, including OpenOffice.org and Sun StarOffice (Eike Rathke), KDE KOffice (David Faure and Tomas Mecir), Gnumeric (Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow and Jody Goldberg), IBM/Lotus 1-2-3 (Rob Weir), and wikiCalc (Dan Bricklin, co-creator of the spreadsheet).

Roblimo

Miller is the author of three books: The Online Rules of Successful Companies, Point & Click Linux!, and Point & Click OpenOffice.org, all published by Prentice Hall.

Slideware

A Presentation program, such as Microsoft PowerPoint, OpenOffice.org Impress or Apple iWork Keynote

Teh

Teh is one of the words in the auto-correct lists of spellcheckers in word processing applications such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, and Corel WordPerfect.

Warmux

The teams are styled after the mascots of various free software projects, such as GNU, Linux, FreeBSD, KDE, GIMP, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, Suse, Workrave, NuFW, SPIP, and Bugzilla.


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