Open Office is a 100% free open source program. It has the same features as, for example,
Microsoft Word or
Microsoft Powerpoint. You can edit texts with it and save it as almost any posible universal format you can think about, you can even save it as a webpage document. Apart from saving into formats you can also export it as, for example, a
PDF (Portable Document Format). Another very good feature is that Open Office comes with a complete package which includes a text editor (Writer), a presentation designer (Impress), a spread sheet for calculation (Calc) and a drawing pad (Draw). These all and some others are surprinsingle good and can even compete with Microsft's creations even though there might be some slight differences in final touch options and design items.
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Open Source Initiative or OSI is a corporation meant to bring computer software with a non-profitable mission. They create text editors or calculation software which is distributed for free and which anyone can download easily. The programs developed by OSI are excellent since they cost no money and can be used fro many things and with a pretty nice final outcome. It is a world wide organization that promotes, in each country, the idea of a free technological educational system that can actually be applied. It encourages people to use their programs by making them free, but also because they are easy to use, very practical (since you can download them anywhere), and open to any operative system. In conclusion these programs currently runned by the OSI are extremely good and should be considered as a posibility for computer working
