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:Mad Penguin: Sandals and All: A Review of "Point & Click OpenOffice.org"
Mad Penguin: Sandals and All: A Review of "Point & Click OpenOffice.org"
Jan 3, 2006, 13 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (8577 reads)

(Other stories by Christian Einfeldt)

[ Thanks to SilentBob4 for this link. ]

"Robin Miller is after your granny. Again. He's trying to entice her with the delights of free open source software. He's trying to make it look easy and fun to play around with open source. First, there was his Point & Click Linux book. Now he's out trying to tempt the uninitiated with an alternative office productivity via his new book, Point & Click OpenOffice.org. When is someone going to put a stop to it?

"Hopefully, not for a while. As with his Linux book, Robin Miller's Point & Click OpenOffice.org, published by Prentice Hall PTR, is a user guide aimed at demonstrating to the most basic computer users that computers and office productivity software can be their friends, not some mysterious tool for hypercaffeinated teenagers only..."

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