Task 16--Open Source--CHECK!

One word to describe Open Office? Awesome. (If I did this combined webolutionizing correctly, you should be able to hear Awesome when you click on Awesome due to SoundSnap. Yay new learned technology. If I did it incorrectly, you'll probably just get weird pop up boxes. ::shrugs:: Works on my computer!) Anyway. Open Source. The definitions were helpful because my understanding was incredibly vague. I understood it meant free, and my general assumption about free stuff (i.e. creative commons and weird non-famous free music and other such tasks), is super low quality or just weird and not at all time worthy. But I didn't know all the business about the code, etc., or that Mozilla was an example...and so I'm probably behind the open source times a little. At any rate, it was great to learn and know. I downloaded Open Office and was pretty darn astounded. I think I am an open source convert. It was extremely comparable to the Microsoft products, it was crazy. Why oh why oh why would anyone ever pay the bazillion dollars Microsoft charges now? I figured it would do the basics without any bells and whistles. I expected there to be limited fonts, etc., but for the most part, it was just as darn capable and easy and professional looking. What a fantastic thing to know about. It has a lot to do with libraries...what are we about if not free and sharing? This is free and sharing. And unlike all those other free tasks I wasn't a big fan of earlier, THIS is useful and meaningful and helpful and full bodied and could really help someone out. I'm thinking of college students who can't afford Microsoft but need to do reports, or any of our patrons with the same limitations/needs. Very cool. Big fan. Thumbs up. Thanks for the photo, Creative Commons. Can I win most tasks combined into one post??