[ Thanks to M.
Fioretti for this link. ]
“OpenOffice (OOo) is the free, currently most popular
alternative to Microsoft Office, the office suite that (with active
help from some schools and Public Administrations) creates
cocain-like addiction problems.“The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is an international standard for
office documents like texts, presentations and spreadsheets. ODF is
already widely adopted worldwide. Using ODF for all your office
documents is by far the easiest, safest and most realistic way
today to really free yourself from the cocain-like nature of
Microsoft Office file formats. The fact that using secret file
formats instead of ODF is what actually maintains the Microsoft
monopoly in desktop computing is proved even by a Microsoft job
offer.“OpenOffice is Free/Open Source Software, but its development is
controlled by software giant Oracle. For this reason, a big part of
the OpenOffice larger community created in October 2010 The
Document Foundation (TDF), to develop what it calls “the next
evolution of the world’s leading free office suite”, an OpenOffice
spin-off named LibreOffice. In my opinion, the success of
OpenOffice, LibreOffice and of the only thing that really matters
here, that is ODF…”