Re: [AMRadio] Alternatives to GatesGarbage(tm)

2008-02-05 Thread Geoff/W5OMR
John Lawson wrote: Folks might also look into Sun's Star Office Suite - does each and everything that Micr$..t does, thats WP, Spreadsheet, Database, Powerpoint, etc etc - the whole thing is $80... I use it heavily in all of my business ventures, and have yet to find an incompatibility..

Re: [AMRadio] Alternatives to GatesGarbage(tm)

2008-02-04 Thread Tony Scandurra W2WAS
You might also try these freebies... http://www.abisource.com/ and http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/ These are even lighter weight than OpenOffice (but not lighter feature-wise!). 73, Tony W2WAS Mike WE0H wrote: How about Open Office? Freebie. http://www.openoffice.org/ I've run th

Re: [AMRadio] Alternatives to GatesGarbage(tm)

2008-02-04 Thread Mike WE0H
How about Open Office? Freebie. http://www.openoffice.org/ I've run that for a few years now. Zero issues ever. Not a resource hog like MS Office and big brother isn't watchin over you when you got it open. Keeps the computer running smooth when your drawing up those homebrew AM transmitter sc

[AMRadio] Alternatives to GatesGarbage(tm)

2008-02-04 Thread John Lawson
Folks might also look into Sun's Star Office Suite - does each and everything that Micr$..t does, thats WP, Spreadsheet, Database, Powerpoint, etc etc - the whole thing is $80... I use it heavily in all of my business ventures, and have yet to find an incompatibility... 80 bux for all of