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Search Party Donating Member (570 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 07:20 AM
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What is the best open source word processing program?
I am on a mission: microsoft free.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 07:21 AM
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1. What platform?
When you say "Microsoft free" do you mean Office or Windows?
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Search Party Donating Member (570 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 08:11 AM
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4. sorry, i guess that would have been helpful info
windows

not completely microsoft free, in software only.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 08:23 AM
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5. Check out this site
Edited on Thu Oct-07-04 08:23 AM by meegbear
Not sure what is the best, but check out

http://www.jairlie.com/oss/suggestedapplications.html

seem to have a good listing of different open source apps for Windows.
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Search Party Donating Member (570 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 08:51 AM
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6. thank you all for your help.
i appreciate it!
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gottaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 07:29 AM
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2. I like abiword
My wife uses open office
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midnight armadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 07:44 AM
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3. XEmacs and LaTeX
'nuff said :-)
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 09:00 AM
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7. You know, used to when you'd buy a computer...
you'd get MS Word for free. The full version. Now you get a trial copy for like six months. You get Works for free, because apparently they think it's substandard. You also get Power Point and office as a trial. How screwed up is this? The high prices of computers used to be worth it for all the expensive soft ware they gave you. Now my $1777 Toshiba is looking waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over priced.
Duckie
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