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10 Questions and Answers about

Where can I get OpenOffice.org? Here at the booth on the OpenCD or download it at:

How much do I have to pay for OpenOffice.org? You do not have to pay anything for OpenOffice.org. It's completely free and without limitations.

Why is OpenOffice.org free? OpenOffice.org is Free and Open Source Software developed by a community. Among the contributers are well-known companies such as Sun Microsystems and Novell, also Redflag 2000 in Beijing. The companies involved in producing OpenOffice.org offer various services around OpenOffice.org, but do not charge any money for OpenOffice.org itself. You can even download the source code of OpenOffice.org and enjoy the freedom to change it for your own needs.

Which operating systems does OpenOffice.org run on? OpenOffice.org is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, MacOSX and several other platforms.

Which applications come with OpenOffice.org? OpenOffice.org is a full featured Productivity Suite. It includes Writer a word processor you can use for anything from writing a quick letter to an entire book, Calc a powerful spreadsheet with all the tools you need to calculate, analyse, and present your data, Impress a powerful tool to create effective multimedia presentations, Draw a great application for DTP and vector graphics, Base a database engine to create and modify tables, forms, queries, and reports with OpenOffice.org and Math to let you create mathematical equations with a graphic user interface.

Does OpenOffice.org include a Browser and an Client? No, but it integrates perfectly with several Open Source solutions, for eaxmple Firefox as a Browser and Thinderbird and Evolution as Clients.

Which file format does OpenOffice.org use? OpenOffice.org uses the Open Document Format (ODF) by default which is an International Standard as ISO/IEC It can also read and write Microsoft Office binary formats such as DOC, XLS and PPT, additionally OpenOffice.org is also able to read the OOXML file fomat.

Is it possible to extend OpenOffice.org? Yes, the OpenOffice.org API supports C++, Java, OOo Basic, Python and many programming languages. You can also download extensions at

Which license does OpenOffice.org use? OpenOffice.org uses the LGPL Version 3:

Can I participate to OpenOffice.org? Yes! Depending on your skills and interest you can be a programmer, do quality assurance, write or translate documentations and many other things. For more information check out: