'OpenOffice.org' for Mac OS X is a port of the popular productivity suite of applications open source project, to Mac OS X. For more information on 'OpenOffice.org' for Mac OS X, visit the 'OpenOffice.org' for Mac OS X web site.
![What is mac os x What is mac os x](/uploads/1/2/5/5/125564536/643968030.jpg)
Acerca de OpenOffice for Mac OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers.
It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. OpenOffice.org is the result of over twenty years' software engineering. Designed from the start as a single piece of software, it has a consistency other products cannot match.
OpenOffice.org is easy to learn, and if you're already using another office software package, you'll take to OpenOffice.org straight away. Our world-wide native-language community means that OpenOffice.org is probably available and supported in your own language. And if you already have files from another office package - OpenOffice.org will probably read them with no difficulty. Best of all, OpenOffice.org can be downloaded and used entirely free of any licence fees. OpenOffice.org is released under the LGPL licence. 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, employees - anyone you like.
Update As of 7 May 2002 on OpenOffice.org: 'As of today, we have successfully built OpenOffice.org 638c for Mac OS X using the X11 windowing system from XFree86.org. We need, more than ever, help to finish it, so that it uses OpenOffice.org 1.0 and Aqua, and is bug-free.
Download it now, and join the project and mailing list. Hunt for bugs; test features; make suggestions. We have proven the concept: OpenOffice.org can run-and it looks beautiful-on Mac OS X.' Is that a death knell I faintly hear ringing in the direction of Redmond? StarOffice I really hope that Sun puts out a version of StarOffice for OS X.
I have used StarOffice on Windows, Linux, and Solaris. Just as powerful as MS Office and up to version 5.2 it was free (version 6.0 costs about $50.00, a bargin considering what you get) About a month ago, my buddies little sister came back from a study abroad program from Italy. She had 2 days to write a report about her tip and MS Word would not start up. I tried to re-install office but that failed too. I installed StarOffice 5.2 for her. Her computer skills are limited to Word processing and AIM and yet she picked it up right away.
She loved it so much that she had me install it on her laptop that she takes to school (out of state). I converted a MS only family to StarOffice. Now I just need to work on getting Apple in their home.
If Sun put out a version for OS X. I would never buy another MS product again (or at least try my best).