Re: Sam's is selling Open Office

[Kara Pritchard <kara@luci.org>]

It's just like Mozilla versus Netscape.  OpenOffice is the freebie, and 
Star Office is Sun's commercial product.

The thing at Sam's is a commercial OpenOffice distributed by some C 
lettered company.

-Kara

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Charlie Brune wrote:

> I'm confused.  When I do the help/about menu in the OpenOffice word
> processor, it tells me that it is copyrighted by Sun Microsystems.
> 
> So... does Sun have *two* office products?  StarOffice and OpenOffice?
> 
> The blurb goes on to say that OpenOffice is brought to you by the nice
> folks at OpenOffice.org, of which Sun Microsystems is a founding member.
> 
> Well, gosh, that sounds just peachy but it leaves me a bit confused.  8-)
> 
> Charlie
> 
> Text from Kara and Doc's thread:
> >> > 2) Commercial Product Support
> >>
> >> by Sun?
> >
> > No, that's Star Office.  Not Open Office.  That box was from a company
> > that starts with a "C". Combi?  I don't remember.. I'll look again when
> > I  go next time.
> 
> 
> 
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