Subject: Re: StarOffice
From: Christopher F Baum (baum@bc.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 04 1999 - 16:29:15 MDT
Yes, they say that they will make the source code available under that
licensing scheme...not yet, but before long. Given that StarOffice is
supposed to be fully file-format-compatible with MS Office, that would give
YDL a very impressive capability for many desktop users.
Kit Baum
Boston College Economics
--On Sat, Sep 4, 1999 12:51 -0600 Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terraplex.com> wrote:
>
> Regardless of what they do, it'll be open source under their community
> license. This means that we could compile it for YDL : )
>
>> Given Sun's announcements, is StarOffice going to be available for
>> Linux-PPC as well as Intel flavors of Linux? Not clear from
>> http://www.sun.com/staroffice
>> what sort of Linux distribution they're talking about.
>>
>> Kit Baum
>> Boston College Economics
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Dan
>
> Yellow Dog Linux for Apple G3 and PowerPC
> email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
>
>
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