OSNews.com: OpenOffice.org 1.0 Review - Review your Options
Jun 17, 2002, 11:00 (11 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by William Ku)
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"Openoffice.org was started as a community project (it just
turned one year old) whereby the source code of certain parts of
Staroffice were released to the public for volunteers to work on
and improve upon them. While these improvements will always be made
freely available, Sun Microsystems reserves the right to
incorporate some or all these improvements to StarOffice which is
still a closed-source project. For those of you who are familiar
with the Netscape/Mozilla story, it is the same dual-licensing
model that Sun Microsystems is using. You might be wondering that
if that is the case, StarOffice will always be the better
product.
"However, this may not exactly so since Openoffice.org is
constantly being improved by expert programmers, users through
their bugs reports and feature requests, technical writers with
their excellent documentation all around the world. Improvements
are being made available very quickly in the form of frequent
software upgrades (could be in the space of a few weeks) while as
new versions of Staroffice (and Microsoft Office) are typically
only made available between programmed intervals of several months.
In addition, Openoffice.org provides cross-platform capabilities
and document interoperability (it has a XML-based file
format)..."
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