Re: IndeView sets your presentations free.

From: Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy (Andrew_No.Harrison_No_at_nospamn.sun.com)
Date: 04/01/04


Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:02:11 +0100

Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> On Montag, 29. März 2004 16:53 Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:
>
>
>>Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy wrote:
>>
>>>Bob Koehler wrote:
>>>
>>>>In article <4062868B.FABD2425@istop.com>, JF Mezei
>>>><jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com> writes:
>
>
>>>>>Seems HP will now start to offer more Linux boxes, including
>>>>>desktops to ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS ONLY, due to high demand
>>>>>from enterprise customers for lower cost servers/desktops.
>>>>>These will not be available to the consumer market.
>
>
>>>> Will they ship OpenOfiice on them? Or are they doing something to
>>>> avoid depending on Sun's good will?
>
>
>>>What like develop their own Office product ?
>
>
>>I believe you are confused, StarOffice is Sun, OpenOffice is GPL.
>
>
> Nope.
>
> OpenOffice is way better than GPL - it is *LGPL*. :-)
>
> ... and so is our little add-on "IndeView" which yyou might consider
> having a short look at - in case you need to show your presentations
> on computers not having OpenOffice/StarOffice installed ...
>
>
> IndeView - Independent Presentation Viewer
>
> *** PRESENTATIONS BEYOND LIMITATIONS ***
>
> details/download: http://www.indeview.org/
>
>
> A wise men once told the world: "If you love something you set it free."
>
> So Sun set StarOffice free - and we set it's presentations free! :-))
>

Interesting, what does it give me over using StarOffice and saving
the Impress file as a MacroMedia flash file. I assume that it
renders better than flash for example.

Up to now if I have wanted a to provide someone with slides that
doesn't have StarOffice I have either used flash or ppt.

Regards
Andrew Harrison



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