On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 06:21 PM, der.hans wrote:

> Am 11. Oct, 2003 schw=E4tzte Chris Gehlker so:
>
>> I thought they were the same thing except that StarOffice cost $80 =
for
>> printed manuals, extra fonts, etc. Am I all wet. I've never actually
>> seen StarOffice in the wild.
>
> StarOffice is not released under the GPL. It has proprietary stuff=20
> from Sun.
> For the most part they plan on taking improvements to OO.o and adding=20=

> them
> to SO. They require code contributors to OO.o assign copyright to Sun,=20=

> so
> they can steal from OO.o all they want.
>
> Not bagging on Sun (much). They've released a good portion of the old=20=

> Star
> Office. They appear to mostly be 'selling' Star Office as a way for=20
> business
> customers to get their 'got to buy it for it to be good' kicks and for
> filters they apparently couldn't release due to the code belonging to=20=

> some
> other entity.

Live and learn. I didn't realize they were that different.