On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 14:45:40 -0400, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To whom it may conern,
I am an 18 year old university
student from Malta. I have an assignment about OpenOffice and I would
appreciate if someone can help me with some questions. I would like to
have information such as:
Sure no problem.
The advantages of using OpenOffice.
OpenOffice.org offers many advantages, first is the freedom of having
access ot it anywhere anytime and works better. Also you have the support
of a community 24/7 to help you out on your everyday tasks. Technical
advantages goes from having a drawing tools that is even better for basic
DTP (for posters and things like that).
About wizards and their effectiveness
Wizards are usually done to get new users to understand word processing or
automating certain tasks. I think wizards could be improved a lot if users
depend on it more. But since most users have some legacy knowledge using
M$O development and enhacement has been a bit slow.
How the operation of Universal Network Objects is used in OpenOffice.
Ok geek speak here, first you need to understand what is a Framework and
an API, UNO is OOo API. Basically is the engine that process and manage
the elements of the suite. VCL is the toolkit OOo uses (the UI, buttons,
menus windows etc). The API is abstracted so many languages could interact
with unO such as Python, C++, JAVA, etc.
If you need more information please check http://development.openoffice.org
How bugs are reported by users throughout this open source project
We have a IssueZilla application within the OOo website, here you are able
to file bugs on the many projects. The key is to learn the projects and
what they do.
How software patents might affect the development of open source
applications
such as OpenOffice.
OOo is patent free, meaning that there is no patent holding it, this is
really a touchy and obscure topic because geeks dont understand law. Then
you have to say if this law is the same in your country or not. Geeks read
the pantent abstract and they assume a threat without even reading the
patent is about. Europe doesnt credit software patents which is good for
you living in Malta.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you very much ,
Ms. Caruana
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Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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