We do first check what kind of freedom we can have OpenOffice
We do not have to contact any vendor or third party
We do not have to worry about license and safe guard of licenses
We do not have to do cumbersome online activations
OpenOffice can be downloaded and used entirely free of cost and it is released under the LGPL license. This means you may use it for any purpose – domestic, commercial, educational, public administration. You may install it on as many computers as you like. You may make copies and give them away to family, friends, students, and employees – anyone you like. And you don’t have to pay anything for future upgrades.
What does this so called OpenOffice contains?
OpenOffice is the name of a OSS productivity suite, comprised of a word processor program (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a presentation program (Impress), a vector drawing program (Draw) and a database system (Base). The OpenOffice supports most commonly used document formats, including support for Microsoft Office formats.
Some of the cool features of OpenOffice
OpenOffice Writer – A full-featured word processor
OpenOffice Calc – Complete spreadsheet functionality
OpenOffice Impress – A full-featured presentation tool
OpenOffice Base – Database system
One-click PDF export feature that enables you to easily create PDF files, to export pdf we don’t need any third party tools
Export presentations and drawings to the Macromedia Flash format
Isn’t it cool? The latest stable release is OpenOffice 2.4, You can download it from OpenOffice official website http://download.openoffice.org/ site.
Try OpenOffice today and enjoy the freedom.