PETER EBERLEIN wrote:
On the German list we were also told that because of license reasons this feature was not implemented into OpenOffice (contact Elizabeth about that).
In general, if a feature exists in StarOffice and NOT in OpenOffice, it is because another product was purchased/licensed for use in StarOffice. A licensed/purchased product can in general not be released with OpenOffice. Another excellent example of this is the regular expressions. Initially, OpenOffice did not support regular expressions until an open solution was created. The most likely reason that an "off the shelf" solution is used has to do with time. There was not time for Sun to develop and release the required components, so they laid the infrastructure and then purchased a product to fill in the gaps. In time, I anticipate that the gaps will be filled with an open source solution, which will probalby then be integrated back into StarOffice as well. Just a prediction.
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