Natalie Ronson wrote:
Hi
I was wondering if it cost money to download open office?
Thanks
Natalie
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Natalie,
OO.o is free. You can down-load the program without
charge. It is released under the terms of the GPL, the Gnu
Public License: see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Once you have it you can put it on as many computers as
you wish.
To get it, go to http://www.openoffice.org/ and follow the
link in the green box to download it.
You can get the source code free as well.
There are many freedoms that the GPL provides. Please use
Google or ask others about what these freedoms are.
Some of these are: Once you have a program released under
the GPL, you can give it away, or sell it for anything someone
us willing to pay you. You can download the source code and
modify it in any way you wish. If you do, and release the
modified program, you have to release it under the terms of the
GPL. This requires you to make the source code available to
your customers for a "reasonable" cost.
Someone said you get what you pay for. Not true here. Here
you get an incredible bargain. You spend time downloading it.
That is what it costs.
OO.o is a WONDERFUL program, particularly so given the
quality of the programming, the feature set and the user interface .
David Teague, http://cs.wcu.edu/~dbt
Oppose software patents: Help keep free software possible.
League for Programming Freedom: http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
http://www.ffii.org/ an active European site that opposes
software patents.
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