I bought suse 6.2 in retail box and got staroffice in the package



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From: Arandir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Ron Stodden
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Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Re: 6.1 packaging error


>On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, Ron Stodden wrote:
>> Gordon von Miller wrote:
>>
>> > Does StarOffice come with Mandrake 6.1?
>>
>> Definitely not!   Star Office, while free of charge, is not GPL or Free
>> Software.  The license that comes with it prohibits redistribution.
>> The only place to get it is from Sun (and be recorded in the process).
>>
>> http://www.sun.com
>
>The fact that StarOffice is not GPL or Free has nothing to do with the fact
that
>it can't be redistributed. Mandrake 6.0 did include it. The fact (?) that
it is
>not in Mandrake 6.1 is probably due to Sun's recent acquisition, and
Mandrake
>hasn't had time yet to negotiate for it's inclusion.
>
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>Arandir...
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