Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Star vs. Open office
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 22:21:37 AKST
Sun released the source for SO 5.2 which was used to make OpenOffice,
and now Star Office 6 is based on OpenOffice. See OpenOffice's 'about'
page.
I'm not sure you could say Star Office is actually open source, but it
is a decent example of how a commercial product can be based on Open
Source.
Jim Gribbin
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 21:20, Adam Elkins wrote:
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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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