Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > If I believe the discussion on /., including what is presented as > Sun's internal email of Jan 11, 2002, OpenOffice will stay free, only > the fully-featured Enterprise StarOffice will be charged for.
The /. article points to a ggogle translated article that says: "Only a variant is to private users named OpenOffice ( Community edition) at the disposal in the future, which will be free of charge available over OpenOffice.org. It is identical in far parts to StarOffice 6,0, from third manufacturers licensed modules such as spell verification and data base is however missing. One can download the current version 5.2 at present still of Suns Website." > > I wouldn't mind buying one if it solved the dependency on the fscking > Word. Unfortunately, in my experience StarOffice more often barfs on > non-trivial Word documents than not, even if they are in English... My experience with Star Office when it first became freeware was an increased appreciation of Microsoft Office. For those that don't know, Word and Excel (the main parts of M/S Office) were suupposed to be ready for the 1981 release of Apple's MacIntosh. They are extremely "mature" products. Yes, I know the MAC did not actually come out until 1984, and Excel and Word until after that. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson Bloomberg L.P., BFM (Israel) 2 hours ahead of London, 7 hours ahead of New York. Tel: 972-(0)3-754-1158 Fax 972-(0)3-754-1236 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
