[KLUG Advocacy] [announce] DEVELOPER RELEASE OF THE OPENOFFICE.ORG OFFICE SUITE FOR MAC OS X NOW AVAILABLE (fwd)

[Adam Williams]

I found this interesting, so I figured I'd toss it here (didn't really 
seem approriate for the memers list.

Do we have any Mac OS X people here?  If so I'm curious how much of the 
UN*X side of the OS you use?  How 'similair' to Linux it feels?  The 
concept of all those people running a UN*X and not even knowing it seems 
like a great potential opportunity for cross-polination.

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Subject: [announce] DEVELOPER RELEASE OF THE OPENOFFICE.ORG OFFICE SUITE 
    FOR MAC OS X  NOW AVAILABLE


DEVELOPER RELEASE OF THE OPENOFFICE.ORG OFFICE SUITE  FOR MAC OS X  NOW
AVAILABLE

Community Development Reaches Milestone of the Mac OS X Port of
OpenOffice.org Office Suite

May 7, 2002 - The Openoffice.org community (http://www.openoffice.org)
today announced the availability of the first milestone build of the Mac
OS X port of the OpenOffice productivity suite. This build uses the X11
Windowing System from XFree86.org to run on either Mac OS X or Darwin,
and is available today for developers interested in helping finish the
port.

"I have been astonished at the speed and quality of the work the
community has done. We have been working together in a tight, efficient
ensemble, and have now something we can use," said Ed Peterlin,
Community developer, OpenOffice.org. "This is exciting for me as a Mac
user -- it's been incredibly fun to get this far -- and know that we
will be able to finish this with just a little more help."

"Apple encourages Open Source development, and supports the open source
community through the Darwin Project," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice
president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "Apple is delighted that a
Mac OS X port of the major open source office suite,  OpenOffice.org
1.0, has progressed so far so quickly."

Earlier this month, the OpenOffice.org community announced
OpenOffice.org 1.0, the open source office suite, developed over a
period of 18 months through the global, collaborative effort of many
thousands of volunteers. The OpenOffice.org 1.0 office suite features
key desktop applications, ­ including word processor, spreadsheet,
presentation, and drawing programs ­ in more than 25 languages.

The code for the Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org has been in development
by the community since April 2001, when the code base was released by
Sun Microsystems, Inc. The current release, a pre-alpha release is
targeted to developers familiar with developing for the Mac OS X
platform.

"The developer release of OpenOffice for Mac OS X is a great
demonstration of the power of Open Source software and its ability to
support multiple platforms." said Zaheda Bhorat, Community Manager,
OpenOffice.org, Sun Microsystems Inc.  "Combining the enthusiasm and
expertise of the OpenOffice.org community and the UNIX-based, open
standards nature of Mac OS X - such as its support for popular Open
Source software like X11 and gcc - enabled us to add exciting new
platforms like Mac OS X to our large and growing list of platforms."

The OpenOffice.org 1.0 software runs stably and natively on multiple
platforms, including Linux, PPC Linux, Solaris, Windows and other
flavors of Unix.  The Mac OS X developer release uses a ZeroG installer
(http://www.ZeroG.com). The OpenOffice.org community wishes to thank
ZeroG in this key contribution to delivering this port.

The Max OS X build is currently available as an alpha release in English
only, although the OpenOffice.org 1.0 is currently available in more
than 25 languages. It is only a matter of time, once this port is
completed, that the OpenOffice.org community will implement the
localizations.
Developers interested in contributing to making this exciting port a
part of the standard OpenOffice.org suite offering can find the tools
and resources on the OpenOffice.org site. The next step, now that the
port has advanced to this stage, is to create a beta release using the
Aqua interface for end users to help finalize. And the OpenOffice.org
community is willing to make it happen.
About OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is the home of the open source project and its community
of developers, users and marketers responsible for the on-going
development of the OpenOffice.org 1.0 product.  The mission of
OpenOffice.org is to create, as a community, the leading international
office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to
all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an
XML-based file format.  Additional ports, such as FreeBSD, IRIX and Mac
OS X are in various stages of completion by developers and end-users in
the OpenOffice.org community.  OpenOffice.org 1.0 is written in C++ and
has documented API's licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL) and Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL) open
source licenses.

OpenOffice.org is the largest open source project with over 7.5 million
lines of code.  To date, more than 4.5 million downloads of earlier
versions of OpenOffice.org 1.0 have taken place. With the release of the
1.0 version, the OpenOffice.org community expects that number to grow
significantly as businesses and individuals around the world explore the
free alternative to proprietary office suites.
Copyright  The OpenOffice.org community  (www.openoffice.org)

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