I don’t use much Office software on my 32-bit systems anymore.
Can you imagine how bad that could have gotten if the SCO defendant had been one of the many corporations that doesn’t have the backbone like IBM? I shudder to think where we’d be if the kernel had been taken away from us.įor 32-bit system OpenOffice seems a good choice. I gained a huge amount of respect for IBM with the way they never backed down in defending the linux kernel in the SCO lawsuit. I know that won’t change people’s views of large corporations all I can say is that in those companies are plenty of ordinary people who are not corporate bigots and I have had the privilege of meeting and working with several of them.
#OPEN OFFICE 64 BIT FREE#
They work for commercial companies and do a lot to help their companies see the value of free software. They’ve invested significant resources into multiple free software projects and in major Linux spaces, such as the annual Debian conferences and others like it, IBM has donated time, people and resources to them and I have met good people from both IBM and Hewlett Packard who are Linux enthusiasts just like we are. I didn’t like them in the past but I have gained respect for the many things they have learned from their mistakes. Like the Google situation many people won’t like IBM either. They’ve definitely been a long time supporter of Linux and they bought interest in Red Hat, which continues as a prominent commercial Linux solution. Not positive but IBM may have connections with OpenOffice after the Lotus escapade. Thankfully they gave up and embraced OpenOffice. They tried to reuse their purchased Lotus Notes brand. Probably people who got into Linux distros like me in the late 90’s and early 2000’s will have a lot of muscle memory related to OpenOffice, and people who started using distros after about 2011 would look at it as a pretty weird set of programs with arcane dialog boxes and visual components. I did an entire college degree using OpenOffice, so I’m already very comfortable with it.
I know someone who has been a GNU/Linux user and Linux evangelizer for many years, but when he writes his Sci-Fi novels he can’t stand to use anything but MS Word because of the way the little tools and keyboard shortcuts work best for him. On the other hand, I’m not bashing anything, I know that everyone has their favorite tools, especially for writing, and that is perfectly fine. I know that Google and Abiword and Gnumberic all have their fans, but I am not one of them. Hi Brian, I’m pretty strongly opposed to using Google services from a privacy perspective, and every time I’ve tried Abiword and Gnumeric over the years they haven’t been the right fit for me.
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