Message-ID: <3A6AF86D.F6B853E@gbso.net> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 09:55:41 -0500 From: "Donald G. Knecht" <msspal@gbso.net> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] OT:soffice source code
Joshua Uziel wrote:
>
> * Admin <admin@eregion.de> [010120 11:20]:
> > >hey,
> > >i read in linux journal and also in a press release, that SUN
> > >released the source code for staroffice back in october, however,
> > >several have lead me to believe it was at openoffice.org, and i can't
> > >seem
> > >to locate it. what i find is a project which is in-complete, has many
> > >bugs,
> > >kind of like mozilla. where is staroffice source, or isn't there?
> >
> > You have located it... StarOffice is closed source up to version 5.2, that
> > open sourced stuff over there at openoffice.org is what might become
> > staroffice 6.0 if the opensource community wants to take over where Sun's
> > developers left off...
>
> Heh... you make it sound like Sun just tossed it out the door and are
> not continuing development on it, which I believe that they are most of
> the work being done on it currently.
i kind of had the impression they were releasing the source for
staroffice...... star office 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 were very good
(complete) products....what is actually available sounds like
something less......
> As soon as I can produce a usable build,
> I'll have it packaged for SuSE/SPARC.
i'm sure i, and others in the sparc-linux user-world, appreciate
your efforts, meanwhile i may download it and see what i can
do also......thanks again,
-don
-- proud Linux user since kernel 1.1.54 icq#42235604
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