[lug] Is staroffice 6 no longer available?

[Peter Hutnick]

On Saturday 23 March 2002 03:58 pm, D. Stimits wrote:
> I'm able to find staroffice 6 beta for Chinese, but it seems to not be
> available in any English format these days (looks like they stopped
> making it available at the end of 2001). Apparently the beta version
> also has an expiration date at the end of March, 2002 (though a patch
> offers a time extension):
>   http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/so6beta_patch.html
>
> I am guessing that version 6 will end up purely as a pay product, I'm
> curious if anyone knows more about that?

Are you all aware that there is a GPL fork of StarOffice called OpenOffice?  
(http://www.openoffice.org/)

-Peter