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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] Star Office
From:       Mathias L Bjorkman <tech () mathco ! com>
Date:       2002-02-28 20:33:36
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Just a thought. Why does everything have to be free?
Paying $40-$50 for a office suite is not the end of
the world. its not like $250-$300 for MS Office.

And if you don't want to spend any money, use Open Office
insted or some other free software.

/MattB

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 14:16, Mike Calloway wrote:
> According to, http://lwn.net, Linux Weekly News:
> 
> No more free StarOffice downloads. Linux users have long been accustomed to 
> being able to download the StarOffice suite for free. It is one of the best 
> deals out there: a complex, highly functional office suite which can be had 
> for the price of a download. Seemingly, the deal was a little too good; the 
> word has now slipped out that StarOffice 6.0 will be a proprietary product. 
> At least for some operating systems; the Solaris version will remain free 
> (of charge).
> 
> There's always OpenOffice... in the Contribs, I think.
> 
> >From: "William R. Nash" <william@wrnash.net>
> >Reply-To: cooker@linux-mandrake.com
> >To: "Cooker List" <cooker@linux-mandrake.com>
> >Subject: [Cooker] Star Office
> >Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:02:21 -0500
> >
> >I know I'm jumping the gun some what I was wondering if star office will be 
> >added to the lm8.2 list.  If so which version 5.2 or 6.0.  I know beta 6.0 
> >ended in December and the finial version is out anytime now.  I have not 
> >heard anything from sun about the new version.
> >Bill
> 
> 
> 
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