OpenOffice beta for Mac OS X available: “The first Mac OS X version cut of the Open Source office suite, OpenOffice, has emerged blinking into the daylight. It's being officially announced at OSDCON today.
This new version, 1.0, is a new branch, with a “boatload” of Mac-specific patches, that adds up to a 147MB download. But it prints and saves, so there's been much progress since a very rough cut appeared early this year. From the screenshots the font rendering looks no worse than running Microsoft Office v.X pre-10.1.5 (which added support for font smoothing).
The project home page is here, and there's a roadmap here. This runs under the XFree86 X server, but a native Quartz version is one of the project's goals.” [NewsForge]