Fwd: Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9 released

[bran tregare]

At 08:16 AM 5/25/02 -0700, Lionel Peterson wrote:

>Well, the big picture had StarOffice as a comercial
>product by a third-party, which Sun bought and turned
>around and offered free licenses/downloads. Now Sun
>has made an additional investment in improving the
>product they bought (assumed),a nd the only way to get
>it is as a purchased piece of software. That older
>versions used to be free is really just an interesting
>piece of information (in my opinion).

actually, even before sun got it, you could download a free version of 
staroffice.....