Linked by William Ku on Sun 16th Jun 2002 18:45 UTC
You may have heard of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice which is being offered as a viable and cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office. Openoffice.org is the open source (or, free indefinitely) cousin of StarOffice. Staroffice used to be free as in you can freely download and install in as many computers as you like but Sun Microsystems has recently decided to charge for Staroffice. However, please do not fret as Openoffice.org will always be free and we are going to show you in this article how and why Openoffice.org instead of MS Office and StarOffice is for you.
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I have OfficeXP and I find it to have an excessive amount of bugs and do things in an undesired mannor more often than I like.
j/k
So I tried OO.org and find it to mimic and(or) build on the above software in enough ways that I now have OfficeXP uninstalled, it's also a nice ability to run the same office applications in linux and windows.
Installation isn't really the important thing here, if someone can't properly install OO.org then there is little possibility that they should be using such a powerful sweet of office applications.
I would recommend to those who can't install OO.org to try using gnotepad+ for linux or wordpad for windows