on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:39:07PM +0200, Robert Voigt (f1k@gmx.de) wrote: > >I don't think so as Staroffice is not a free or open source software > >and Sun does not give the sources > > Star Office is GPL. StarOffice, that bloated stuck pig of an office suite, is *not* GPL. OpenOffice, which is derived from StarOffice, that bloated stuck pig of an office suite, *is* multiple-licensed, including under the GPL/LGPL. It's hosted by Collab.Net at http://www.openoffice.org/. > I just don't think there will be a package maintainer for such a > monster package. Just today I learned they have 180 people working on > it. That's why it's so big and slow :) No, blame legacy. Last time I checked (~Nov, 2000), the install was about 70 MB and the development environment was ~650 MB. Way Too Big For Prime Time®. And it broke horribly. I had words with Brian Behelendorf at the time. He, Collab, and Sun are well aware of the problems, and are hopefully doing something to repair them. I haven't stayed up with developments as I, frankly, don't care for office suites. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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