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Re: sun StarOffice for linux
Ohad Somjen wrote:
>
> hi,
> i use startoffice mainly for presentations, and it rocks.
> it's 70MB and it's free for personal use.
The whole reason people are suddenly talking is not that.
It's the fact that Sun bough StarDivision, and now it's free for *any*
use, not just personal.
There are just two problems:
1. It's not Open Source -- that means we won't be able, for example, to
help with Hebrew support unless we sell our soul to sun. Somebody please
correct me if this isn't true.
2. Sun is planning to take StarOffice apart and turn it into a
"thin-client" system. *This* may mean that SO, as we know it, won't be
continued to work on.
Just my $0.02,
Gavrie.
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Gavrie Philipson
System Administrator
Netmor Applied Modeling Research Ltd.
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