dianev

Our family switched to Openoffice back in the early 2000's, and and it keeps getting better. 200 million users can't be wrong. Especially now, when Microsoft, Adobe, and other proprietary software companies are making their users pay monthly blackmail to use their software, and store their documents, it's important to use, espouse, switch to and support open software, such as Openoffice. Talk to your fellow workers and friends, and the managers at where you work to drop blackmailware, and switch to open software. It's the wave of the future, and the only way to keep ownership of your software, and what you produce with it. Think about open computers as well. As the hardware and software becomes more restrictive, and the Internet becomes restricted to downstream only, owning your computer, the software on it, and your creative output is the only way to stop the proprietary tidal wave from crushing us. Support open, free (as in free speech), software and hardware!

Our family switched to WordPress in the middle 2000's. Even then it made producing websites easier. Additionally it's able to be customized. It looks good, and my daughter and oldest son swear by it. Millions of people and organizations swear by it as well. The fact that it is open software is the best. That way, everyone can have their own website and/or blog, with anything on they want - total free speech and total free access; that's real freedom of speech, a commodity that seems to be getting in short supply around our little planet.