{"id":48,"date":"2004-02-22T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=48"},"modified":"2004-02-22T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2004-02-23T00:54:07","slug":"amusing-sunday-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/22\/amusing-sunday-reading","title":{"rendered":"Amusing Sunday reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2004\/2\/22\/education\/7328377&#038;sec=education\">Open Office, a free option<\/a>. Interesting snippets include (but at not limited to):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Mohd Adlin Abu Bakar, managing director of M3 Management Sdn Bhd, the local distributor of Open Office. <\/em><\/li>\n<li>On Microsoft Office vs. OpenOffice.org differences &#8211; <em>There is a 10% difference.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> M3 Management is one of four GNU public licence holders for Malaysia and has the authority to distribute the software.  <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Such a joyful article&#8230; To which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/lost+found\/ooo-m3.com.my-1\">I responded<\/a>. Funny that they are one of the four GNU public license holders. Or even that they&#8217;re a community distributor. Real joy. My thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m3.com.my\/\">M3 Group<\/a> for giving me laughs on a Sunday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Amusing%20Sunday%20reading&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F02%2F22%2Famusing-sunday-reading&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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