re-thinking LUGs and early planning for the first Canadian LUG summit

[Asaf Maruf]

Correct me if i am wrong but StarOffice 5.2 was free but versions
onwards were commercialized by Sun. OpenOffice is the open source
version. From what i gather a lot of public schools are running Win
'98 due to paucity of funds.

Asaf

On Nov 8, 2007 4:17 AM, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Henry de Valence wrote:
> > On November 7, 2007 07:58:28 pm David J Patrick wrote:
> >
> >> There are coMpanieS that would
> >> love to see a hard vendor lock-in at federal, provincial and municipal
> >> levels, and some pre-emptive actions would be prudent.
> >>
> >
> > Speaking of which, I hear that the K-6 schools are all using StarOffice.
> > What's with that? OpenOffice is free, and does the same thing.
> >
> As I recall, StarOffice is provided for free, by Sun.  There was an
> announcement about that a couple of years ago.  As long as they're using
> some ODF compliant office suite, that's fine by me.  Those kids will
> grow up knowing that you don't have to use Microsoft products and that's
> a very good thing.
>
>
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> Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>
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