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

[George Adkins]

On Wednesday 22 May 2002 02:57 pm, you wrote:
> 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.
>

I contacted them about site-licensing, they gave me the e-mail of their VP in 
charge of marketing.  I got two replies from him via e-mail, both promising 
he'd call me.  He never has.  I gave up, if their product support is anything 
like this, I don't want their product.

George