Integrate a little Freedom into your Office

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We discuss the weather. Summer in Scotland fell on a weekend this year. This pleases us.

2:20 Rescuing an old laptop

6:10 Mobile phone operating systems
8:35 A visit to the Free Software Foundation
15:00 You don’t have to install Linux – you can run Free Software Windows or OS X
  • Firefox is a great Open Source browser
  • Plenty of free office software out there
  • AbiWord is a lightweight word processor – lean and effective
  • LibreOffice Writer
  • Open word processors can open almost any document format, and save in any format too – unlike Microsoft Word
  • Integrates seamlessly with Word
  • Don’t waste your money on Microsoft Word
  • LibreOffice includes spreadsheet, presentationdatabase and other software.
  • Exports to PDF.
  • The Free Software Foundation Open Document campaign.
  • The Document Foundation
  • NeoOffice for OS X
  • Zotero is a LibreOffice and Firefox plugin for citations
  • Fight the power! Unions should reject Word documents from employers.
28:00 Feedback
 

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