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Pro Freeware and Open Source Solutions for Business

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In early 2009, I was relaunching my business in a new city (my family and I relocated in late 2008). We had actually planned this move for a couple of years, but the timing of the sale of our house coincided with the unfolding Financial Crisis. Like many other families, we were impacted in a negative way. Our relationship with money was forever redefined, and careful budgeting became a top priority. My wife, Sally, decided it was time to update her resume in order to search for work that could be done from home, so we purchased a resume creation software package for about $20.00 and a new, discontinued model computer at a deep discount. The computer (which was running Windows Vista) did not come with Microsoft Word installed. MS Word was required to use the resume creation software. At that time MS Word cost about $100, which was more than our budget allowed. I went online in search of a possible alternative. Before long, I discovered a program called OpenOffice that claimed to be a free, fully functioning alternative to MS Word, and compatible with Word files. After downloading it and trying it out, I was very pleasantly surprised. It worked with the resume creation software just fine, and my search for a document creation program ended right there. And the best part was, the license allowed me to copy it and install it on multiple computers-all at no cost! My discovery of OpenOffice was like finding a one hundred dollar bill I had forgotten about. With our situation the way it was, it was a truly fortunate find: Sally could work on her resume, and I could install OpenOffice on my computer and create sales letters to acquire new customers.

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: ., 2015

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1-265

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English

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978-1-4842-1130-4

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Pro Freeware and Open Source Solutions for Busines

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