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| <h2 id="introduction">Introduction<a class="headerlink" href="#introduction" title="Permalink">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>Along with an email client and a web browser, an office suite is a core essential |
| application that almost every computer user requires. Although there is a dominant |
| commercial product in this category, its price and limited platform and language |
| support makes it an unsatisfactory option for many. OpenOffice, for over a decade, |
| has helped fill this gap. Our goal is to develop, publish and support OpenOffice |
| as a world-class office suite, free for anyone to use, and since it is open source, |
| free for anyone to build upon. Using the generally available discounted price of |
| commercial office products, the value of OpenOffice downloads over the past decade |
| exceeds USD 10 billion (10,000,000,000).</p> |
| <h2 id="overcoming-the-digital-divide">Overcoming the "Digital Divide"<a class="headerlink" href="#overcoming-the-digital-divide" title="Permalink">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>More than 40% of the world population lives on less than US$ 2 per day, and around |
| 20% live on less than US$ 1 per day. Against these numbers, commercial |
| shrink-wrapped office software is often seen as a luxury good. End-user facing |
| open source software, like OpenOffice, brings high-quality software to those who |
| would otherwise have no other affordable options. Within the ICT for Development |
| (ICT4D) community, OpenOffice has long been an important part of achieving |
| development goals.</p> |
| <h2 id="support-for-linguistic-and-cultural-diversity">Support for Linguistic and Cultural Diversity<a class="headerlink" href="#support-for-linguistic-and-cultural-diversity" title="Permalink">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>There are over 6,000 languages in the world, but unless the language is associated |
| with a G20 economic superpower, commercial vendors tend to ignore it. The |
| OpenOffice community has a long standing tradition of supporting a large number |
| of languages, including languages used by smaller populations, minority languages, |
| endangered languages, etc. By supporting languages that would |
| not otherwise be supported we help reduce "digital exclusion" and promote |
| development, local education and administration.</p> |
| <h2 id="accessibility">Accessibility<a class="headerlink" href="#accessibility" title="Permalink">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>Persons with disabilities, especially those with visual impairments, commonly |
| rely on "assistive technology" to interact with computers. Such technologies |
| work well only when applications are designed and coded to work well with them. |
| Additionally, users who create documents must do their part to ensure that the |
| documents they create work well with assistive technology, for example through |
| the use of image captions, consistent list levels, etc. The OpenOffice project |
| aims to provide strong accessibility support, both in the core product and |
| including broader ecosystem support via extensions, for working with Braille |
| printers, exporting to DAISY talking books, etc.</p> |
| <h2 id="open-standards">Open Standards<a class="headerlink" href="#open-standards" title="Permalink">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>Open standards are those standards which are created in an open, transparent |
| process, where the specifications can be freely accessed and implemented without |
| royalties. Most core web standards are open standards. The default document format |
| in OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format (ODF) is also an open standard. Widespread use |
| of open standards promotes interoperability and choice in the market. But this |
| does not come without effort on our part. We commit to faithful implementation |
| of open standards, and to work with standards organizations and other vendors |
| to improve these standards and to test and improve interoperability.</p> |
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