[ale] Google to distribut StarOffice for free

[James Taylor]

FYI - 
The Novell version of OOo has the WordPerfect filters and a number of other enhancements, including <gag><cough> MSOffice 7 doc support.
It's part of the openSUSE distribution, or you can download it directly from Novell.
-jt



James Taylor
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>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at  9:15 AM, in message
<843680.98929.qm at web38813.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Bruce
<callmebruce2002 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> What it might do, is make OpenOffice.Org formats more
> prevalent. Why would a home user buy MS Office at $140
> or so for a student version, if they can do Star
> Office for free as part of the Google Pack.
> 
> I know OOo is free (and from what I'm reading here -
> so is Star Office) - but I think the average user
> might be more apt to install Star Office as part of
> Google pack than go search out OOo and install it.
> 
> My kids all use OOo, but I'm getting tired of having
> to save and translate docs to make sure we e-mail them
> in MS formats. My wife uses Word Perfect - so maybe
> the Star Office translator for Word Perfect might be a
> good thing.
> 
> --- Brian Stanaland <brian.stanaland at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> If I recall correctly, Star Office for Solaris and
>> Sun Java Desktop (Sun's
>> Linux) are a free download from Sun.  It's also a
>> free download for Solaris
>> Express Community Edition which is what I'm running
>> on my SunBlade 150 at
>> the office.  As far as differences go, Star Office
>> has more filters for
>> proprietary formats than OpenOffice.org does.  I
>> believe there is a
>> difference in the included database but since I
>> don't use it I can't say for
>> sure.
>> 
>> Brian
> 
> 
> 
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