- #Paying for neooffice for free#
- #Paying for neooffice full#
- #Paying for neooffice code#
- #Paying for neooffice mac#
He doesn´t have to do that as per the licence terms.
#Paying for neooffice code#
He still gives CVS access to anyone who asks for it even though the GPL demands to offer the source code only to people to whom you´re distributing your software. He is self employed and still takes the time to produce something like this.
#Paying for neooffice for free#
Do you have any idea of much time it takes to put something as useful as his software together and then release it for free out of his good will? Go to the webpage that the parent poster gave and read his reasons over there. I´m afraid that you´re not being fair, my friend. – OSX become more mainstream (see Apple sales figures)Īs these things come together the OOo team will hopefully merge in the prestigious efforts of the NeoOffice guys and operate with shared overheads.
– hopefully becomes less Java-ish and more native – NeoOffice stabilises in sync with latest OOo My hope is that as a number of things happen: Iff you are worried that your documents may look different in your clients edition of MS WORD then send them a PDF. This Java based NeoOffice is in itself a medium term fix “until something better” happens.įor those that whinge at paying a little here can go elsewhere and pay a lot … or take their agrieved integrity down the piracy route.įrankly OOO and NeoO are ready for almost all business use – so get over it. It is great and works well though I haven’t tried the latest Aqua edition. The extraordinary achievement of NeoOffice is that they have got so far so fast. I don’t blame OOo for going that route as a medium term fix “until something better happens”. The logic for the OSX X11 port is that is little more than an ordinary unix build to achieve. They don’t offer previous releases for free, they don’t offer the final version for free a month later and they don’t provide the source code. MS is charging a nominal fee for the beta now and will charge it’s normal fee for the final. ( 2.0 for X11, MS Office for Mac, AppleWorks, whataver.) If you don’t want to pay, you have three options:Ģ) Use the recently released NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha with identical functionality and wait a month to get the Beta for freeģ) Use something else.
#Paying for neooffice mac#
For $25 you get all of that and the chance to ensure future development of the only complete OSS office suite for the Mac that doesn’t require X11 and integreates with Mac OSX. Moreover, the NeoOffice team provides free, annonymous CVS access and step-by-step build instructions, so this is _nothing_ like MS charging for a Beta.īy joining the EAP, you are paying for the packaging, early access and the time that it saves compiling yourself.
#Paying for neooffice full#
The full source code is already available under the GPL. The EAP is a voluntary fundraiser for the developers. NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha 4 and the earlier 1.22 are already available for free download.
*pretending to be that charity person from tv* Open Source developers need love, because without them the computer world would be a lot different than it is today. It helps lower the developers cost and gives the developer a larger incentive to spend more time on the project. How is that greed? I think thats mighty freaking awesome of them.Īs an open source developer, I totally support the idea of asking for donations for open source projects. This means they are spending their OWN money to work on a project thats available to everyone for free. Guys… these people are donating their time and resources for this project. What amazes me are the people who sit here and think that the NeoOffice team asking for donations has ANYTHING to do with greed. I think thats mighty nice of them to be honest. These guys are trying to give something in return for your donation (you know, besides their time and work)… the ability to check out the new NeoOffice Beta before its public release. All they are doing is asking for donations. Regarding the ‘paid’ beta… Its a fund raising event guys. The app in general does look a lot nicer that it used to however. One thing though… although I like the new look… I can’t help but to think that the toolbars seem a little out of place still. Right now there are not all that many ‘real’ alternatives to MS Office on the Mac.
MacOS truly needs something like OpenOffice. It also was not horribly stable at the time either… I love OpenOffice… but the thing that prevented me from really using NeoOffice was just how… disconnected… it felt from MacOS. I am glad to see they are trying to better integrate NeoOffice with MacOS.
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