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OpenOffice.org has released version 2.4 with many improvements. Congratulations to both developers and users of OO.o! I personally am in no capacity to evaluate it. I’m pretty sure it has about as many buttons and check boxes and sliders as the previous one. I still like Abiword.

The new OpenOffice.org website looks awesome though, double cheers for the clean and usable design!

Inspired by this, and also probably about my previous post, my friends nickspoon and mc44 on #ubuntu-offtopic defined a topyli-friendly design for OpenOffice.org 3.0. There’s still time to make a difference before they feature freeze!

But as mc44 says, don’t get your hopes too high :(

Today, jay_davis taught freebse and topyli valuable truths. I feel obliged to share this wisdom with the community, so that we can all sleep better now.

Finally it’s settled. Thanks PFA! mc44 and rodserling joined the discussion part, but the verdict was never changed.

Just FYI.

Release early, release often. We all know how free software maintains its superior quality over closed models of software production. The Mertonian ideal of scientific progress relies on the same principle. Snuxoll also knows this, and decided to submit some work in progress to peer review, and Gary was kind enough to provide very constructive criticism. This is what makes us so great!

Update Nov 18: added linkage.

This installation of tales from the offtopic is a snippet from a discussion between malv and nanonyme last Friday night. Scary stuff really.

We’re living in confusing and perilous times, and they (you know, they) will try to silence us all the time. Nobody expects the spanish isquisition, make no mistake. This is why we need more heroes like recon.

Featuring recon, gord, and topyli.

Update, Oct 8: recon, feeling he looks better in real life than in my vision, delivered this modified version of the cartoon:

First time the tales get a little touch of a human artist. Thanks, recon!

Technical mysteries make wastrel hungry. And a hungry wastrel is an angry wastrel. This installation of tales from the offtopic features Falstius, FurryNemesis, and wastrel.

We might as well admit it, Ubuntu has always been GNOME-centric. Our favorite KDE user aubade learned a lot from mc44 today.

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