[lug] Is staroffice 6 no longer available?

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

The last thing I heard (a few weeks ago) is that they were going to
start charging for StarOffice on certain OS's (including, IIRC, Linux).

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:29:27PM -0700, quoth D. Stimits:
> "Timothy C. Klein" wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, I have have heard that it will be a pay version for 6.  There was
> > an orticle on slashdot today about Mandrake users being mad, because the
> > fee for StarOffice 6 (which is apparently part of Mandrake) makes
> > something cost with Mandrake 8.2
> 
> So starting with Mandrake 8.2 all users will be required to buy
> StarOffice 6? Ouch, I can see that'd make someone angry. On the other
> hand, perhaps they'll have a version available for download or from
> elsewhere without it. Perhaps it is time for KRUD to expand...KMUD
> (Mandrake) 8.2 with patches and no commercial software :)
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 
> > 
> > Tim
> > 
> > * D. Stimits (stimits at idcomm.com) 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?
> > >
> > > D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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