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In contrary to proprietary software open source software is freely accessible, including also its source code, for everybody.
Open source software solutions have been developed by communities since the early days of computers. Over the time, and nowadays mainly through the use of the internet, communities have grown to strong groups providing valuable software solutions where one of the last projects in this movement is the well known OpenOffice.org software suite. It represents an alternative to Microsoft\'s ubiquitous Office® application with similar word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software.
The development of OpenOffice.org is partially backed by Sun Microsystems with the support of international communities helping to implement great ideas and powerful functionalities.
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