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Sun to Charge for Star Office 6.0

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the death-of-a-thousand-pinpricks dept.

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.'"

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  1. What about Open Office? by djweis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it free if you roll your own?

  2. who cares by nettahcs · · Score: 1, Funny

    who needs spell checking and databases anyway :)

  3. Then why the penguin suit? by ttyRazor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this Scott McNealy's revenge for having to wear some stupid penguin get-up?

    http://news.com.com/2100-1001-832463.html

  4. Re:This isn't bad... we have 2 versions now by TeknoHog · · Score: 3, Funny
    The closest thing to an office suite that

    The true 'geek' users among us

    would use, is called EMACS.

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  5. Re:Does Anyone Actually Use It? by Iamthefallen · · Score: 2, Funny
    So they could charge 10 times the amount they are charging now and still not make a dollar.

    Of course, 10 * 0 is still 0, so I say raise the price to 10 million times the current price! It's bound to impress market analysts and other creatures of the night

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  6. Re:OpenOffice would be great, but... by Isao · · Score: 2, Funny
    Aaargaarghaarg...

    You spelled that wrong.

  7. Re:Usual grumble by Anonynnous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, Scott's the one that said "you have no privacy, get over it." What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, no?

  8. Re:Open Office is good. by RevAaron · · Score: 3, Funny

    LISt Processing? Why not just use CLISP?

    (most of you slashkiddies won't get this joke, but kudos to those that do!)

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  9. Re:Business 101 by Decimal · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not an Office killer and Sun knows it.

    Pity. I think there are a lot of people out there who would pay good money for software that would kill everybody back at their office.

    Oh, you mean MS Office...

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  10. Re:Usual grumble by WasterDave · · Score: 3, Funny

    I work for Sun, and submitted this story more than a month ago when we received internal email about the plans to charge for StarOffice.

    You mean you used to work for Sun until you submitted this story when you received an internal email?

    Dave ;)

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