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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: the end of KOffice? I hope no ....
From:       Tobias Burnus <burnus () gmx ! de>
Date:       1999-08-31 17:23:16
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Thomas Kordelle wrote:
> > http://www.sun.com/staroffice

Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> ??? No, why?

Alexander Feigl wrote:
> Hope not. Not another binary distribution. (see kisdn thread). It would be
> stupid to stop
> KOffice. I deleted StarOffice some days ago because it didnīt work any
> more (binary
> problems, StarOffice is VERY incompatible.  I donīt want to install it
> again

Well SUN promisses that it will release the source of StarOffice (and wants to
sell the support). I also don't see why this would affect KOffice, but I think
SO is presently better ;-), but why not haven't more than one alternative.
(Don't ask me about the licence and flaws of the source code release.)

From http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html :
Our aim is to .com office productivity. We are publishing the StarOffice
specifications and _will_make_the_source_code_available_through_the_Sun_
_Community_Source_Licensing_program_ to encourage industry-wide
collaboration on future versions of the software. 

Tobias

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