Sure - that's cool. I was merely thinking the Sun developers might have seen their goal as beiong to mimic MS office rather than create something better.
Sadly that was partly my impression. But I'm glad Libre might be different in that aspect :) On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 22:09, Carlos Jose Lenarts Ramis <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry OOo/LibO is not a copy of MSOffice, this is a rough resume of the > OOo/LibO story: > > 1985: StarWriter for Amstrad CPC y Zilog Z80. > > 1991: StarWriter 5.5 for DOS and is also released StarDraw 1.0 and > StarBase 1.0. > > 1995: StarOffice 3.0 for Windows, OS/2, Mac > > 1996: StarOffice 3.1 for Windows, OS/2, Linux. > > 1999: StarOffice 5.2 the first SUN version > > 2000: OpenOffice.org > > And if you put the program menu layout it has it roots at least from > WordPerfect (1980) / WordStar (1978), if we put the history of MSOffice and > OOo/LibO and it's parts in a timeline they are pretty similar. > > -- > E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to > unsubscribe > List archives are available at > http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
