[rescue] StarOffice 6 Released! Oh, wait, Nevermind... (was:Solaris 9 released)

[Tim H.]

On this topic of (not)paying for software-- There's a company called gobe, used to do BeOS exclusively, but are now marketing their offic suite "productive" (nice name, gobe productive) for Windows and Linux.  Not open source, but their license is beautiful.  It is a per-user license, so if you buy their product you can put it on all your home machines, and they even include a certificate to show the PHB for one machine at work.  And the price is supposed to be ~$125, introed at ~$75.  These are the guys who wrote Claris Works, which I really like.  But anyway, I wish this kind of licensing would catch on in the proprietary software world.

Tim

On Wed, 22 May 2002 10:22:20 -0700
David Passmore <dpassmor at sneakers.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:29:02PM -0400, George Adkins wrote:
> 
> > StarOffice 6.0 is out too...  I've been looking forward to this for Months 
> > and Months...  and, wait...  $76 bucks?  No Trial version to see if it even 
> > works right?  You mean I have to pay $76 to find out if it's even marginally 
> > better than that piece of trash they released with 5.1?
> > 
> > Nevermind.  FSCKing Suits...
> 
> God forbid we pay anybody for their work.
> 
> David
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