Today I was very excited to hear that the first alpha of the native version of Open Office for mac became available. The site is very clear that this is just a development version and should not be used for real work:
"WARNING: THIS SOFTWARE MAY CRASH AND MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR REAL WORK IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT"
There is also quite a list of issues still to be dealt with:
"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 recognise multiple monitors"
Even so I've downloaded a copy and had a quick play with it. Obviously it's quite unstable at present but I'm excited to see progress. If you would like to download the alpha version too, I suggest going to this page as I had some problems getting the torrent from the main site. You will also need a bit torrent client.
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