Get Legal - Get OpenOffice.org
Is your office software legal?
According to figures published by Microsoft, 35% of the software in the
world is thought to be counterfeit or otherwise illegal.
After years of unofficially tolerating piracy as a means of securing market share,
Microsoft is now going on the offensive to make sure copies of its software are legitimate.
- It has just bought a software company specialising in detecting what software is installed on PCs.
- It is now using the internet to put piracy detection software into copies of MS-Office on people's PCs.
- Around
the world, the Business Software Alliance is setting up schemes to
prosecute offenders - for example, in the UK it is offering large cash
rewards to anyone who informs against organisations.
- Microsoft itself admits customers find it difficult to navigate the complexities of software licensing - it's easy to break the rules by mistake.
If you have a copy of MS-Office at work, at school, at home -
are you sure where it came from?
Fortunately, there is a completely legal and free alternative.
OpenOffice.org 2 is a fully-featured office suite, similar in
functionality to MS-Office. OpenOffice.org 2 does everything you need:
word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and much more. It can even
use MS-Office format files (.doc, .xls, .ppt), so you don't need to
re-type your work. What's more, it does things MS-Office does not, such
as create pdf files to give to other people.
If you can use MS-Office, you can use OpenOffice.org 2. Studies have shown it is
ten times cheaper to move to OpenOffice.org 2 than it is to upgrade to MS-Office 2007.
A poll has indicated 86% of users would prefer to try OpenOffice.org 2 rather than buy MS-Office 2003.
So what are you waiting for? It costs nothing to try. If you like it,
OpenOffice.org 2 costs nothing to use for as long as you like, wherever you like. Peace of mind at no cost.
