Uhh. In short descriptions you may encounter another twist: the common
codebase, now hosted on OpenOffice.org and which forms the base for the
OpenOffice.org and StarOffice products, that codebase itself is
originally based on an older version of StarOffice code, which was
released (to OOo) by Sun.
So StarOffice (the product) and OpenOffice.org (the application) is
based on OpenOffice.org (the source code), which is in turn based on
StarOffice (ver 5.2+changes/the source code). Additionally the most part
of the development that happened on OpenOffice.org since its inception
was done by StarOffice development at Sun, and could also be claimed to
be 'based on StarOffice'.
Thus for any description that says that one or (StarOffice,
OpenOffice.org) is based on the other, you need to find out in what
sense these names are used (the product, the source code, the project,
the people?) and in what sense they are supposed to be 'based' on the other.
That said, if you know of any particular descriptions that need fixing,
you need to contact the owner/maintainer of that page/site/project.
Unfortunately every instance has to be fixed individually. There is no
magic incantation to semantically fix an entire site ...
-Jörg
Lars D. Noodén wrote:
Thanks. Some of the short descriptions of OOo and SO could use updating
to reflect this.
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Joerg Barfurth wrote:
Neither. There is only one codebase from which both StarOffice and
OpenOffice.org are built. Corresponding milestone builds of StarOffice
and Sun-built OpenOffice.org even share a significant part of the
binary files (i.e. they are packaged from the same build).
Both products add some components or branding elements that the other
doesn't have. For OpenOffice.org the source for these elements lives
in the OOo CVS, for SO most of it lives in a private source code
repository at Sun. In this very limited sense you could say OOo source
is the base for SO source.
--
Joerg Barfurth Sun Microsystems - Desktop - Hamburg
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