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

Wed May 22 17:34:09 CDT 2002

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:25:20AM +0200, frank wrote:
> > > God forbid we pay anybody for their work.
> 
> doesn't have too much sense that a huge company like sun wants to charge
> people for their (still in development) office suite. why?, cause out
> there are great free office suits that do the work and do it better
> (openoffice, abiword+gnumeric, etc) for $75 i can buy suse 8.0
> professional ($80) or almost 2 personals ($40). and you still got more
> free (as in freedom and free like a beer ) opportunities.  you can
> install debian and run open office and you gonna be very happy.

My understanding is that Sun found that the perceived value among
corporate users went up when they started charging for it.

Thus OpenOffice for the geeky among us, and StarOffice for the suits
and something that is "officially supported".

./patrick