HI,

StarOffice 6.0 beta does not include Adabas.

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College of Engineering
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Timothy Quimpo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] StarOffice 6.0 download? (was: How is Linux doing on the
desktop?)


> At 02:15 PM 11/15/01, you wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:29:04PM +0800, M. Yu wrote:
> >He received it under the terms of the GNU GPL.  It's legal as long as he
> >offers to give you the source for a reasonable fee, and "distributes" it
> >under the terms of the GPL.
>
> i don't think so.  StarOffice is binary only.  there is no source to
> redistribute.  of course a lot of the source in OpenOffice is in
> StarOffice, but there are parts of StarOffice (thesaurus, dictionary,
> ADABAS, maybe other things too like hyphenator code, etc) that is
> not open source.  that's why StarOffice, although almost identical
> to OpenOffice, isn't open source.
>


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