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

Then why the penguin suit?

[ttyRazor]

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

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

Re:Business 101

[Decimal]

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...