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voidmain:
You still have the title wrong. Sun does *not* want money for OpenOffice. They are charging for "StarOffice".  Nothing wrong with that as it is their application.  They are nice enough to give the non-proprietary portions of it to the GNU community for what is called "OpenOffice.org". OpenOffice.org and StarOffice are nearly the same thing, except you will buy the version called StarOffice and get commercial support for it, unlike with OpenOffice.org. There are a lot of companies out there that will not use an app (even if it is free monitarily) because there is no company behind it that they can point the finger at when something doesn't work. I am extremely pleased that Sun allows the majority of the source code to be GPL'd for us cheap skates.

P.S. "OpenOffice.org" is the actual name of the open source version of the office suite and it can always be found at http://www.openoffice.org for no charge.

[ May 29, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Calum:
100% true as usual, i changed it so it's correct, of course aforementioned midnight has now passed, so it's really moot. still, i've got staroffice 5.2, and openoffice.org 1.0 on a CD, if anybody is in the UK and wants to send me a blank and an SAE, i'll do them a copy!

[ May 29, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

Master of Reality:
I wouldnt mind a bit about paying for staroffice. I dont mind paying for good software, and i believe that staroffice is a fine piece of work. What i would not pay for is something like windows which is not good software. It is very convienient however that i got it (staroffice) for free.

Now... do they mean midnight GMT? Because if it is, then you can still get it for another 15 minutes.

[ May 29, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

Calum:
doh! 18 minutes past as i write this! anyway i already have 5,2!

I agreem they get to charge for it! fair enough! did you know though that staroffice wasn't originally a Sun Micrososytems product? Sun bought it, opened the code, and totally did a "netscape". Top good on them i say, can't remember who they bought it off but i'm sure somebody will fill me in...

 or they might even tell me who it was!

voidmain:
A small company (one or two programmers if I remember right) called "StarDivision" originally wrote StarOffice.  It was closed source but you could get it for free. I used it before Sun bought them out. Very soon after Sun bought them out they GPL'd the code.

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