“Germany’s SuSE said on Friday that the new version of its Linux
operating system distribution does not include the latest version
of StarOffice because its proprietary, fee-based license would have
increased the cost of the operating system. The shift in policy of
one of several changes to SuSE Linux 8.0, which includes revamped
core technology and new graphical desktop software.“SuSE included version 5.2 of StarOffice, a Microsoft
Office-like package from Sun Microsystems, in previous
distributions but decided against including StarOffice 6.0 after
Sun began charging fees for the software. Sun also works with
outside developers to provide OpenOffice, a free, open-source
package that shares much of its core technology with
StarOffice.“‘It wouldn’t make sense to have a proprietary application based
on an open-source code base (in SuSE Linux),’ said Jurgen Geck,
SuSE’s head of technology partners and strategic alliances…”
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