Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:11:09 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun to buy staroffice & release source ? Message-ID: <199909010511.WAA28093@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199908311618.LAA13605@chumbly.math.missouri.edu> from Rich Winkel at "Aug 31, 99 11:18:54 am"
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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? Has anyone signed up to do the port yet? If not, put me on the list. -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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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