[ale] Google to distribut StarOffice for free

[Warren Myers]

makes sense :)
novell owns wordperfect

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my question, though, is why people are still using wordperfect - with all
the *SO* much better alternatives (like word, OO.o,  rtf editors, etc)?
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WMM

On 8/21/07, James Taylor <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > --- Brian Stanaland <brian.stanaland at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> 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.
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> >> Brian
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