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> Can anyone direct me to a free office 2007 like ribbon bar

>Bill,
>The closest I've seen is:
>
>http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/11/21/licensing-the-2007-microsoft-office-user-interface.aspx
>
>Which allows you to license the "intellectual property rights in the UI".
>However!! it does not allow you to license the code!
>
>A number of control vendors offer commercial versions of the Ribbon that you
>can purchase. A number of these I understand have signed the license.
>
>If you find one please let me know, I plan on compiling a list of Ribbon
>controls...
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> Hey J,
>
> Off the top of my head, these guys have implementations of the Ribbon
>
> - DevExpress http://devexpress.com
> - Infragistics http://infragistics.com
> - DivElements http://divil.co.uk
>
> As for for free alternatives there was one some time back called
> Mentas Ribbon. Get it here
> http://dotnetproject.blogspot.com/2006/06/mentas-ribbon.html
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:40:53 -0600, "Jay B. Harlow"
> <Jay_Harlow_***@tsbradley.net> wrote:
>
>> Bill,
>> The closest I've seen is:
>>
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/11/21/licensing-the-2007-microsoft-office-user-interface.aspx
>>
>> Which allows you to license the "intellectual property rights in the UI".
>> However!! it does not allow you to license the code!
>>
>> A number of control vendors offer commercial versions of the Ribbon that you
>> can purchase. A number of these I understand have signed the license.
>>
>> If you find one please let me know, I plan on compiling a list of Ribbon
>> controls...
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>
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