Sun can do this.  IIRC, Sun is the only one who can use it commercially 
according to the license.

It'll be good competition for the leased / online software from Redmond.

Terry

At 06:37 AM 3/12/2005, you wrote:
>All right, I've got a question:
>Why not put open office online?  I don't mean put the program online for 
>users to download, I mean put the program itself online.  Here is my idea, 
>put OO.o as an asp for people to use.  I've been thinking about this since 
>I've been using gmail.  Gmail does a lot dynamically.  I've heard 
>microsoft has versions of word and other office apps online for businesses 
>to rent, so why not open office?
>I think it's possible we will see a a shift from each individual machine 
>having every application known to man to more of a client/server view, 
>where everybody has a machine, and they connect to the net and go to 
>www.OpenOfficeWriter27.asp when they need to type a letter or 
>www.GrandTheftAutoNewOrleans.asp when they want to play a game.
>I'm not saying I expect this to happen, but I think it's possible once 
>broadband becomes more widespread and once computer hardware flatens out.
>Michael Dolan
>
>Andrew Baudouin wrote:
>
>>Check out this review, I'm definitely going to check out the beta...
>>
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