Sun to Charge for Star Office 6.0

biwillia writes: "According to this heise article (in German, or Google translated), free versions of Star Office will now only be available to Solaris users. Free versions for Linux and Windows users will no longer be offered. A homemade translation of the first paragraph reads, 'With version 6.0 of Star Office, scheduled to be released in May, Sun has changed the product politics of their Office package, which had been freely distributed since the aquisition of Hamburg-based Star Division. In the future, Sun wishes to charge license fees for usage of the Windows and Linux versions. Only the version for Sun's own operation system Solaris will remain free.'"

Comments

Sure Sun gets it.

[glrotate]

Not.

Does Anyone Actually Use It?

[quakeaddict]

I don't know anyone who does.

So they could charge 10 times the amount they are charging now and still not make a dollar.

Re:Remember ..

[Jacco de Leeuw]

Those things which are or will be present in StarOffice (costs $$$) but are not available on OpenOffice.org (free) include:

• Certain fonts (including, especially, Asian language fonts)
• Some sorting functionality (Asian versions)

Now, this will surely be an incentive for Asians to buy StarOffice, instead of the rampant MS Office copying they currently do...