Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-28 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello Regina, From: Regina Henschel [mailto:rb.hensc...@t-online.de] I've got StarWriter 2.0 Compact with one of my first PCs. The CD from 1994 is still readable. It contains a version for Win and one for OS/2. Both together around 11MB. But that are binaries of cause, no source.

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-27 Thread Malte Timmermann
Honestly, I don't agree on 30th Anniversary, but see 2015 as 25th Anniversary. StarWriter for text screens was written in Lueneburg near Hamburg. In Pascal. By people which later didn't work on StarWriter for Windows. In 1990, Marco started the new StarDivision location in Hamburg.

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-27 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Malte! So, you do realize this is probably one of the very very few witness accounts we have of the origins of StarOffice? (later OpenOffice) ... and if you were to consent to writing more--or being interviewed in a podcast for more--we, or at least I, would be grateful... and better informed of

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-27 Thread Alphonso Whitfield III
- From: Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com To: marketing marketing@openoffice.apache.org Cc: d...@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 1:57:48 PM Subject: Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary Malte! So, you do realize this is probably one of the very very few witness

English dictionary (Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary)

2014-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/10/2014 Alphonso Whitfield III wrote: When is the English language dictionary going to be fixed in the spell checker application? The English dictionary is not supposed to be fixed since it already works. If it doesn't work for you, try resettin your user profile. There are plenty of

Re: English dictionary (Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary)

2014-10-27 Thread Alphonso Whitfield III
Subject: English dictionary (Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary) On 27/10/2014 Alphonso Whitfield III wrote: When is the English language dictionary going to be fixed in the spell checker application? The English dictionary is not supposed to be fixed since it already works. If it doesn't work

2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
Those who know the history know that Apache OpenOffice is the continuation of the OpenOffice.org project, which itself came from a proprietary suite developed in Germany called StarOffice, which itself started as StarWriter, an application written in 1985 by Marco Börries . So next year, in 2015,

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-24 Thread Roberto Galoppini
2014-10-24 16:41 GMT+02:00 Rob Weir r...@robweir.com: Those who know the history know that Apache OpenOffice is the continuation of the OpenOffice.org project, which itself came from a proprietary suite developed in Germany called StarOffice, which itself started as StarWriter, an application

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Roberto Galoppini roberto.galopp...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-24 16:41 GMT+02:00 Rob Weir r...@robweir.com: Those who know the history know that Apache OpenOffice is the continuation of the OpenOffice.org project, which itself came from a proprietary suite

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-24 Thread Marcus
Thats a great idea. Unfortunately, I'm not a very old-timer so I cannot help with appropriate hardware or software. But maybe with writting texts or translating from German. Marcus Am 10/24/2014 04:41 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: Those who know the history know that Apache OpenOffice is the