From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 20:00:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0AC737B401 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 20:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E84D343FB1 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 20:00:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj001@rogers.com) Received: from rogers.com ([24.101.253.54]) by fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.comESMTP <20030624025950.YQTP12647.fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com@rogers.com> for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:59:50 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF7BEB0.3000906@rogers.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:00:00 -0400 From: mj001 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org References: <200306231645.h5NGjBNF042990@tower.berklix.org> <200306232120.02293.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> <200306231243.57299.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.101.253.54] using ID at Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:59:50 -0400 Subject: Re: /usr/ports/misc/magicpoint X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 03:00:04 -0000 Johnson David wrote: > On Monday 23 June 2003 12:20 pm, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: > >>OpenOffice also has a presentation tool ('Impress') that might be >>more attractive to PowerPoint users. Ditto for OpenOffice's Excel >>replacement ('Calc'). > > > OpenOffice Impress is extremely compatible with MS PowerPoint, including > the audio, wipes and other "frills". > > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I had the opportunity to do a presentation on Open Source products at work a few weeks ago. One selling point was to point out, part way through, that the "Powerpoint" slides I was showing had been entirely written with OpenOffice Impress, and exported in Powerpoint's format - not a byte changed with Powerpoint itself.