A Windows application?!? [LWN.net]

A Windows application?!?

Posted Apr 20, 2005 17:39 UTC (Wed) by and (subscriber, #2883)
In reply to: A Windows application?!? by chohman
Parent article: Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org (ComputerWorld)

> I'm sorry, but my memory says that Star Office was developed, over the
> course of some 14 years, as a *nix office suite by a German company
> called StarDivision.

If my memory doesn't play tricks to me, StarOffice was indeed first
written for windows 3.1. In fact there may have even been a DOS version,
but this was well before i got in touch with computers. The first port to
linux was done by some StarDivision employees in a conspiratorial way.
(IIRC one of them was Kalle Dalheimer who later played a major role in the
KDE project.) This first port was never officially released and was based
on MOTIF (and required a proprietary motif runtime environment which i
couldn't affort at that time. ;-) The first official port was already
based on StarDivision's own widget set.

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A Windows application?!?

Posted Apr 26, 2005 12:53 UTC (Tue) by kreutzm (subscriber, #4700) [Link]

Well, I sure was able to buy a special Motif licences back then from SuSE to run StarOffice. So maybe the port was not fully official, but at least SuSE provided it and charged for motif (only).