Yes, NeoOffice/J has progressed at an amazing rate over the past few months from an alpha version last fall that basically just allowed OOo to run semi-natively in the Mac OS X environment to a beta version in late December that featured more seamless Mac integration, to a release candidate by early spring that looks and feels even closer to "prime time" with patches and updates being released, on average, every 10 days. Even though Patrick Luby and Ed Peterlin haven't quite gotten NeoOffice/J to a final release version, choosing it over OOo with X11 is pretty much a "no-brainer" for most Mac users at this time, given its tighter integration with the OS and that it is based on a considerably newer version of the OOo source code.� The picture will be somewhat less clear once OOo 2.x is ported to Mac OS X with X11. At that point, users will have to choose between the tighter OS integration of Neo or the more advanced features of OOo, as there will likely be a considerable time lag before a NeoOffice/J based on OOo 2.x source code appears. Patrick Luby has stated that continued development of NeoOffice/J beyond version 1.x will depend largely on increased community support, both volunteers to handle coding and testing tasks as well as financial support. Nick, it's great that you're so pleased with NeoOffice/J. I'd certainly encourage you to contact Patrick and Ed to see how you can make your programming skills available to further the cause. On Jun 9, 2005, at 1:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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