Otter Escaping North - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I'm sure it's just me (Score 1) 369

by Otter Escaping North on Wednesday March 19, 2008 @10:41AM (#22796104) Attached to: An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0

For me the X11 requirement on OS X is a real nuisance.

Agreed, but as I mainly use Linux, it didn't have the opportunity to grate on me too badly. Grandpa Otter installed NeoOffice (OpenOffice ported to run natively on the Mac). You might consider checking it out for the next 160 days or so.

Submission + - IBM beats Microsoft over the head with own code (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

bednarz

on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @07:36AM

bednarz writes: "IBM added a delicious twist on its new commitment to help OpenOffice.org battle Microsoft Office by donating code that was originally derived in part from a Microsoft-developed technology. IBM's iAccessible2, code-named Project Missouri, is a specification for technology used to help the visually impaired interact with Open Document Format (ODF)-compliant applications and was developed in part using Microsoft Active Accessibility (MAA)."

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