The $400 Factor

After singing the praises of free operating systems, it is now time to pay tribute to free office software suites. Specifically, OpenOffice.org (aka as OO), the “substitute,” open source “replacement” for Microsoft Office. ”Substitute?” “Replacement?” We believe it to be so, but we know, deep down, that it cannot be; if it were, in the sense that proprietary Microsoft code were used in order to