>From the article I understand they are talking about Star Office. note that (a) Star Office was never open source - it was just free - sometimes. commercial users of Star Office still had to purchase a license, it was only free for private use, but ever since Sun bought Star Division, nobody seemed to care about the old Star license.
I don't think that this source is very reliables (a quote of a qoute of a quote - I had to click three links from the one posted to get to the original article, and then couldn't read it - because it was in German ;-) According to the article though, Open Office will remain free and open source. Oded -- "Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization." -- Jon Bentley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Uri Bruck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 2:28 AM Subject: Re: star office > > > Sun distinguishes between star office and open office. Is this just about > the former or about both? > > > Thanks, > Uri > http://translation.israel.net > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, tal amir wrote: > > > I'm wondering if anyone saw this coming : > > > > sun said that star office is no longer under GPL for linux\windows users. > > ver 6.0 final (upcoming in this may) will be distributed free only for sun > > solaris. > > > > back to MS office, anyone ?? > > > > http://whatsup.homelinux.com/article.php?sid=12 > > > > tal. > > > > > > 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] > > > > > ================================================================= > 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] > > ================================================================= 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]
