Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Star vs. Open office
From: Adam Elkins (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 22:18:30 AKST
Well, I just downloaded Open...I'll save it under that, so i can it's open,
and more so, it's FREE. lol...Maybe I'll give both credit.
Adam
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:21 pm, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> 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:
> > ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> >
> > 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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