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I recommend using wget The way Akamai works you can replace a1388 in the first part of the hostname with any number from 1 to 2047 for example: http://a2047.g.akamai.net/7/1376/2064/OpenOffice60 5/anoncvs.openoffice.org/download/OpenOf fice605/oo_605_src.tar.gz is the same file as
http://a0.g.akamai.net/7/1376/2064/OpenOffice605/a noncvs.openoffice.org/download/OpenOffic e605/oo_605_src.tar.gz

Platform independent source code: http://a1376.g.akamai.net/7/1376/2064/OpenOffice60 5/anoncvs.openoffice.org/download/OpenOf fice605/oo_605_src.tar.gz

Solver[output tree]: http://a1412.g.akamai.net/7/1412/2064/OpenOffice60 5/anoncvs.openoffice.org/download/OpenOf fice605/solver605_win32intel.tar.gz http://a1400.g.akamai.net/7/1400/2064/OpenOffice60 5/anoncvs.openoffice.org/download/OpenOf fice605/solver605_solarissparc.tar.gz

Build instructions: http://www.openoffice.org/build.html

OpenOffice binaries: http://a1484.g.akamai.net/7/1484/2064/OpenOffice60 5b/anoncvs.openoffice.org/download/OpenO ffice605/linux_install_605.tar.gz http://a1496.g.akamai.net/7/1496/2064/OpenOffice60 5b/anoncvs.openoffice.org/download/OpenO ffice605/solaris_install_605.tar.gz http://a1508.g.akamai.net/7/1508/2064/OpenOffice60 5b/anoncvs.openoffice.org/download/OpenO ffice605/winnt_install_605.tar.gz http://a1520.g.akamai.net/7/1520/2064/OpenOffice60 5b/anoncvs.openoffice.org/download/OpenO ffice605/winnt_install_605.zip

At about 5:45am PST, our web server was brought down by a veritable tsunami of hits.

But that and some pointers to the download site comes up fast, though.

They're Akamai links, but when I click on them, I get bounced to the main "our server is swamped, please wait while we fix it" page at OpenOffice. Any other mirrors out there? Jay (=

I was a beta tester for WPOffice/Linux, and I was just plain depressed when the first CD arrived, and I saw what they had done. Talk about a mess. At least StarOffice went to the trouble of porting their monolithic bloatware to a native Unix toolkit. I am holding out hope that the GPL'd and split apart future of StarOffice (OpenOffice, which is buzzword compliant) can improve things. But it'll probably be vaporware for at least a year, sorta like Mozilla.

You're right of course, the apps I listed aren't ready to provide alternatives to the proprietary features of MSOffice. Even if they were intended to, MS would just break compatibility with their next revision anyway. :)

According to the FAQ, a dual license will be used (GPL+SISSL for most stuff, LGPL+SISSL for libraries).
SISSL as far as I understand allows non-free derived works as long as all changes to the file formats are disclosed with open source (The idea here apparently is to ensure that there won't be any closed office file formats in the future by giving other companies the incentive of being able to use OpenOffice.org source code).
Also, all copyright is meant to be assigned to SUN so that "the copyright is unified" and they can prosecute license violations more easily.
I personally think these arrangements make sense but I'm sure a lot of people will be disappointed anyway.

So, I was at the Ottawa Linux Symposium this
morning, and who was doing the opening keynote,
but Miguel de Icaza of Gnome fame. He mentioned the GPL-ing
of StarOffice, and the project underway since
*April* to port it GTK and Bonobo (the Gnome component
system), which Helix Code was assisting in. He
changed the subject quickly after that, mentioning an NDA
but.. very interesting nonetheless. Oh yes, the new name is OpenOffice. Check it out at http://www.openoffice.org

Here is SISSL.

I really can't grok it. Does source have to accompany an executable? Does StarOffice have to be distributed under both licenses? It appears as if a lawyer with too much time on his hands wrote it. Why can't they make law easy to understand?!?!?!?

What's with the Login with a password at openoffice.org? I think this may come dwn after the 10/13/2000 release date? I hope so. What would be the point of GPLing the Star Office if only a select fiew can get to it?! Wonder what MS thought when they heard that?

-J