(FOSS) all this, and world peace too?

Honestly, are there any limits to how good this open source thing is? :-)

OpenOffice.org development boosted by Arab-Israeli collaboration

"Similarities between the Arabic and Hebrew languages have enabled groups of Israeli and Arab developers to assist each other in solving common problems developing local versions of OpenOffice.org software."

[For those who may not know, OpenOffice.org is the open source version of Sun's StarOffice, which together aim to unseat the major cause of Microsoft's stranglehold on us!]