Sun wants people to pay for StarOffice [LWN.net]

Sun wants people to pay for StarOffice

Posted Sep 21, 2004 22:46 UTC (Tue) by lakeland (subscriber, #1157)
In reply to: Sun wants people to pay for StarOffice by dmaxwell
Parent article: OpenOffice: A legal Trojan horse--but for whom? (ZDNet)

I don't think a fork is such a smart idea. For a start there are very few developers outside sun working on OO.o, so I would expect any such fork to struggle. However, I seem to recall reading (here?) about a project to convert OO to a more standard build system in the hopes of attacting external developers.

Personally I think OO.o is an ugly piece of software and best got rid of, but until KOffice is ready to take the stress it is extremely useful to have around. So my personal preference would be for it to struggle along for a couple more years before dying. However, I think that I'm in the minority on this view :-)

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Sun wants people to pay for StarOffice

Posted Sep 22, 2004 0:12 UTC (Wed) by eyal (subscriber, #949) [Link]

And what makes you think that KOffice will be exempt from M$ patent lawyers?

M$ has been filing thousands of patents on just about everything. Most of them are probably invalid, but neither OpenOffice.org nor the KDE project have the money to prove it in a court.

Eyal.