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I Have always been a supporter of Open source software and as usual this is another open source software review. I know most of our readers have shed the Microsoft curse and are using products like NeoOffice and AbiWord. OpenOffice.org have just released an Alpha edition of their OpenOffice which is ported to Aqua. This edition is not meant for full time deployment, rather, it is a test release to iron out kinks and performances issues. After using this product for several hours I have found it to be quite unstable and at times temperamental. It does, however, looks good and is faster then NeoOffice when it comes to load times. What was very weird is that the cursor is far away from the last letter typed and it is very hard to know if it is a space or just the letter between the cursor and the letter. When I quit the program it crashed but that is noted on the release notes. Over all, the OpenOffice suite looks great but needs some time to come a long and iron out all the kinks and quirks in it. If you are the adventures type I suggest you give it a test drive and see how it fairs on your Mac. A word to the wise though, don’t use it for critical documents because it is not yet mature enough.

Some Known Issues:
* You cannot print
* PDF export does not properly work as thetext won’t show on the page right
* Starting OpenOffice.org from a shared folder does not work
* Copy and paste does not fully work
* OpenOffice.org will crash after quitting
* Some text is not drawn in places like Impress
* Impress will not recognize multiple monitors

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