Okay, well, I understand that this will be VERY hard to comprehend, but --- Sun made some mention about 6 weeks or so back that they were considering charging for Star Office because they were hearing a LOT of feedback from corporate america that they wouldn't consider using it unless they could pay for it. The perception being that if it was free then Sun wasn't standing behind it. Gotta say that I've seen this attitude at several of the companies I've worked at as a consultant. Can't use freeware, there's nobody to sue. Like they'd ever actually sued a software vendor. Of course, I think OpenOffice will remain free, so you'll kind of have a choice of buying StarOffice and getting the add-on goodies or using OpenOffice. I don't think Sun can very well take back the freed code. I WILL be interested to see how much Sun decides to charge. jethro at freakzilla.com wrote: > Hey, > > Quoting Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com>: > > >>Sun wishes to charge license fees for usage of the Windows and Linux >>versions. >>Only the version for Sun's own operation system Solaris will remain >>free. >> > > > You know what's REALLY stupid about this? > > SOLARIS IS FREE! > > What on Earth is the point of making StarOffice free for Solaris but nothing > else? Anyone can download the Solaris/x86 8 ISOs off Sun's website and run it > on a spare PC - even if you bought a new low-end PC it'd cost less than > licensing Office for a small business. > > -Yaron > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >