Your not buying open office your buying StarOffice and/or StarSuite. Under the new name of Oracle Open Office. If you want to continue to get Open Office free go to www.openoffice.org It says on the front page second block center. Please note that Oracle Open Office is the new name for StarOffice and StarSuite. StarOffice was previously sold as Sun's office productivity suite with StarSuite being the Asian language version of StarOffice. This name change has no effect on the functionality of StarOffice or StarSuite.
SRB http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quiltexpression4/ -------Original Message------- From: Joshua Lee Date: 07/19/10 09:55:57 To: [email protected] Subject: [discuss] Oracle I just upgraded my open office, then it took me to oracle's website. I noticed I could now buy OO from Oracle. I am kinda confused, why are they charging for what is free already? And why do they get to? I mean, I understand anyone can sell open source software, but we are advertising them right on OpenOffice.org. I must have really missed something here. Are they taking over? Did they buy the site and are they now the maintainers for the open source project? Could some one speed me up on this? Thanks, Josh Lee Joshua R. Lee Senior Software Engineer Global Telecom & Technology 8484 Westpark Drive, Suite 720 McLean, VA 22102 USA Office +1 (703) 442-5500 ext 528 Direct +1 (703) 442-5528 Cell +1 (302) 824-6858 Fax +1 (703) 442-5595 [email protected] The information in this transmittal (including attachments, if any) is confidential, is intended only for the use of the individual named above, and includes information which is or may be legally privileged. Any review, use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution of the information in this transmittal other than by the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmittal in error, please notify me by e-mail immediately and delete the original message, any and all attachments, and all copies from all locations in your computer systems.
