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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:38:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com>
To:        "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sun's StarOffice 5.1, again
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.05.9909201735400.7056-100000@luna>
In-Reply-To: <199909210022.RAA23112@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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With their ever-stricter licensing agreements and their ever-less
competitive position in the market, it is likely to be some time before
the source is released under a usable license.

				-Kip

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Chad R. Larson wrote:

> As I recall, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > As I recall, Haobo Yu wrote:
> > > > http://www.serv.net/~mcglk/staroffice-install.html. It worked for me. 
> > > 
> > > Do we know if this cookbook works against 2.2-STABLE?
> > 
> > We know it definitely will not.  You _may_ have some luck running 
> > WordPerfect on 2.2, since it is a much kinder app, but not StarOffice.
> > 
> I've got WordPerfect 8 running now.
> 
> I bought two copies (one for the office, one for home) of the StarOffice
> CD-ROM from the Sun Web site ($9.95 each) and loaded the Windows version
> on a Win98 machine at home.  I loaded the Solaris SPARC version on an
> E450 at work.  I'm just shooting for universal deployment.  I suppose
> the POSIX kernel stuff would kill me on my 2.2 machines.
> 
> Anybody sign up for doing the Native FreeBSD port whenever Sun gets
> around to releasing the sources?
> 
> 	-crl
> --
> Chad R. Larson (CRL15)   602-953-1392   Brother, can you paradigm?
> chad@dcfinc.com         chad@larsons.org          larson1@home.net   
> DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207
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