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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Re: the end of KOffice? I hope no ....
From:       <Alexander.Feigl () gmx ! de>
Date:       1999-08-31 17:53:03
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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.)
> 

Sun doesnīt say anything about this strange "Sun Community Source License"
or
something like that. And I wonder if it will be a real "Open Source".  I
hope it wonīt
affect KOffice. I like KOffice better (when it gets finished). Until it is
usable I prefer
doing all my work with LaTeX. BTW. Can you use KWord? After banning
StarOffice 
it would be good to have some word processor just to play with

> >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. 

As long as they donīt publish this "License" these are just words.


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