Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 08:47:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, (Rich Winkel) <rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu> Subject: Re: Sun to buy staroffice & release source ? Message-ID: <XFMail.990901084759.mj@lagrange.isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <199909010511.WAA28093@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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On 01-Sep-99 Chad R. Larson wrote: > As I recall, Rich Winkel wrote: >> See http://cnn.com/cnnfn/1999/08/30/deals/wires/sun_wg/ > > Sun did buy Star Division. Last week. > > Start your research at http://www.sun.com/staroffice/ > > This week they announced that they were selling StarOffice for $0 on > the supported platforms (Windows/95/98/NT, Solaris x86 & SPARC, > Linux and OS/2). Downloads free, a CD-ROM with all platform's > binaries for about $10 (plus S&H). I ordered two CD-ROMs from the > web site for a total of $28. And I downloaded the Solaris/SPARC > version and installed it on one of our E450s this evening. > > They also stated they would be releasing the source code under the > "Sun Community Source License", which is pretty close to Open > Source. It fails a bit in that changes you create become property > of Sun, but not too bad, really. > > The stated purpose of the purchase of Star Division was to obtain > needed functionality (an office suite) for Solaris. The stated > reason for the open source move was the hoped for rapid improvement > in stability, bug fixes and import/export filters. To which > everyone said, "Yeah, right." This is an in-your-face to Micro$oft. > > This must screw the Applixware folks pretty royally. I have no idea > what this means to the FreeBSD mall folks who are paying for an > Applixware port. But who here isn't rubbing their hands for the > native BSD StarOffice port that must be soon to follow? > I have used both Applix and StarOffice. I like Applix more, it feels cleaner in some respects and definately consumes less memory. Given a BSD port for Appplix I'd buy it. I use Applix now for all desktopping tasks I know of... I do wish StarOffice a bright future though. Cheers, Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.1 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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