Subject: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Star vs. Open office
From: Adam Elkins (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 21:20:58 AKST
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Star vs. Open office
Date: Tuesday 11 February 2003 09:03 pm
From: Adam Elkins <i-robot@gci.net>
To: Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net>
Cc: aklug@aklug.org
The reson behind this question is this: I'm doing a slide show presentation
for govt. class/ The teacher said "Power Point is a good thing" I instantly
thought, 'I'm NOT going to use that!'. So, I'm going to make a point during
my presentation that M$ products are not needed, there are alternatives. (I
heard more than one person in class say they were going to have to go out and
buy M$ Office)
So, I've used StarOffice so far, because I already have it installed. The
last slide will be a propaganda slide about OpenSource.
So, would it be wrong of me to say StarOffice is OpenSource??
Adam
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 08:56 pm, you wrote:
> From the OpenOffice.org faq:
>
> Differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org
>
> The source code available at OpenOffice.org does not consist of all
> of the StarOffice code. Usually, the reason for this is that Sun pays to
> license third party code to include in StarOffice that which it does not
> have permission to make available in OpenOffice.org. Those things which
> are or will be present in StarOffice but are not available on
> OpenOffice.org include:
>
> * Spell checking
> o UPDATE: An Open Source Spell Checker is available that
> handles Spell Checking.
> * Certain fonts (including, especially, Asian language fonts)
> * Help
> o UPDATE: Help is now included with the Distribution.
> * The database component (Adabas D)
> * Templates
> o UPDATE: Templates are available from the Documentation
> project.
> * Extensive Clip Art Gallery
> * Some sorting functionality (Asian versions)
> * Certain file filters
> o UPDATE: WP Project is striving to get Word Perfect
> filters.
>
>
>
> And, more to the specific question you asked:
> 3. Can Sun ever take away the code?
>
> The simple answer to this is NO. Once code is released under the
> LGPL, it can never be taken away. Once LGPL, always LGPL. Sun has no
> plans to return to a closed-development model. Sun is subject to the
> same rules as the rest of the community, including giving back
> modifications under the LGPL (or a specification and reference
> implementation under the terms of the SISSL). Thus, Sun can never take
> away the code and the community's contributions to it. This code belongs
> to the community as guaranteed by the LGPL and the SISSL.
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