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Submission + - SoftMaker Office now free... with a charity twist (loadandhelp.com)

Submitted by martin-k on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @02:50PM

martin-k writes: The office suite SoftMaker Office for Windows and Linux is now available as a free download ... with a twist: For every successful download, the developer donates ten Euro cents to charity and development projects on the open charity platform betterplace.org. Nearly two weeks into this campaign, the site has logged more than 57,000 downloads. But hurry, the campaign ends on December 31.

Submission + - SoftMaker Office 2008 now a free download (loadandhelp.com)

Submitted by martin-k on Thursday December 17, 2009 @07:04AM

martin-k writes: The office suite SoftMaker Office 2008 is now a free download ... with a twist: For every successful download, SoftMaker donates ten Euro cents to charity and development projects on the open charity platform betterplace.org. Now there's a way to get a free office suite and do some good at the same time. Slashdot has reported about SoftMaker Office before.

Comment Not a good start (Score 1) 274

by martin-k on Saturday May 02, 2009 @04:55PM (#27800815) Attached to: Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Released, Supports ODF Out of the Box

>> it includes the earlier-promised support for ODF text documents ...

And boy does it suck at that. We tried it out, and it is extremely unimpressive. Tracked changes are gone when you save to ODT, nested tables from ODT often lose their text, and object positioning is often wrong. Generally speaking, anything more than simple letters requires manual intervention.

Did they just repurpose the open source converter they commissioned? It certainly is the worst filter I've seen from Microsoft in a long time.

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