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It's almost to the point I feel a need to call you out on this as being literally true so no one can call you a liar but that truth being represented in such a way as to mask the real situation. In a way what you say is absolutely true but then that misses the mark but quite an impressive amount. Net it out and the average AOO contributor is 4x as productive compared to the average LO contributor! And the average AOO commit is far more significant, touching twice the number of files as the average LO commit. It shows that the average AOO contributor makes twice the number of commits as the average LO contributor. You can download the latest version of Apache OpenOffice here. Extensions mean that Open Office can gain capabilities from outside contributors, rather than being wrapped up in large, all-or-nothing updates. In conjunction with this release, SourceForge (also under the Slashdot Media umbrella) has announced the launch of an extensions collection for OO. This release comes with some major improvements to graphics handling, too anti-aliasing makes for smoother bitmaps. The code still has comments in German but as long as real new features keep coming and can be shared with other office suites no one is complaining.' The sidebar mentioned brings frequently used controls down and beside the actual area of a word-processing doc, say, which makes some sense given how wide many displays have become.

An anonymous reader writes 'Still the most popular open source office suite, Apache OpenOffice 4 has been released, with many new enhancements and a new sidebar, based on IBM Symphony's implementation but with many improvements.

Apache openoffice supports development of the product by