Description Anyone who wants to get out of the Office should check out OpenOffice.org. The not-for-profit organization's mission is to develop, license, and disseminate a suite of open-source word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing software that competes with Microsoft's Office programs. Sun Microsystems helped OpenOffice get off the ground in 2000 by donating some 7.5 million lines of code; Oracle now sponsors OpenOffice. Governed by an elected community council, OpenOffice depends on the contributions of developers and end-users to pursue its projects, identify and fix software bugs, and improve its technology.