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The OpenOffice Project has posted the first alpha of OpenOffice for Mac OS X Aqua. Previous version required X Windows. This one doesn't.

OpenOffice.org Aqua requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

WARNING: THIS SOFTWARE MAY CRASH AND MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR REAL WORK IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT

This is an alpha test version so that developers and users can find out what works and not, and make comments on how to improve it.

There are a number of things that do not work in this version including, but not limited to:

Better late than never. OpenOffice is dual licensed under the LGPL and Sun Industry Standards Source License.