On 08/08/2011 02:27 PM, Cowboy wrote:
> On Monday 08 August 2011 09:39:15 am you wrote:
>
>>    Open office base has been taken over by Oracle/Sun and likely any new
>> addons like form/report design will be a "premium pay for add-on" to the
>> basic freebie package.
>   That's not exactly true.
>
>   Open Office is a fork of the Sun Microsystems Star Office package,
>   as contributed to the Open Source community *BY* Sun Microsystems.
>
>   I wouldn't be at all surprised to see this sort of thing in Star Office
>   first, but Sun has been quite good at supporting their Open Office as well.
>
ORACLE bought out Sun, and some of the coders/developers that supported 
the original OpenOffice project weren't happy with the new thrust to 
charge for premium add-ons, hence their desire to leave and start up the 
Libre-Office project.


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