On 3/19/06, Fred A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> The URL is dated May 25, 2004.     Microsoft quotes JUKEBOX as claiming
> that
> they supposedly switched claims they migrated to OpenOffice in the late
> 1990's.


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Sun didn't release the proprietary StarOffice 5.2 source code to the Open
> Source community until Oct 13, 2000
> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/10/13/001013hnstaroffice.html


StarOffice by StarDivision also had free releases that were available in the
late 90s.

http://linuxgazette.net/issue09/staroffice.html

http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~plug/mail_archive/9811/0091.html

Since OpenOffice.org *is* the updated free version of the StarOffice from
the late 1990s - it is fair to use the same name for both products.

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