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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. frost pist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It hurts and stuff.

  2. CANADA WINS by Rcoonzz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hehe who the f*** cares when Canada just kicked
    the USA's AASSSSSSSS ....hehe!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    1. Re:CANADA WINS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Referring to Canada's 5-2 victory in the Olympic Men's Hockey game. Gold for Canada in both Women's and Men's hockey. Yay!

    2. Re:CANADA WINS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The Canadian referee won the men's game for Canada. You should be proud of yourselves, you have the dirtiest refs in the world!!

    3. Re:CANADA WINS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      USA played well, though.

    4. Re:CANADA WINS by jakub_sad · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Stop your crying! Canada > USA! :)

      So uhhh... keeping with the topic.... uhh... any Sun commercials during the game?

    5. Re:CANADA WINS by lukecs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      did you notice that only one goal was cored on a power play for each team?

      you are just bitter

      CAUSE CANADA ROCKS

  3. DEAR WAYNE GRETZKY AND CANUCK BASTARDS, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To all my dear Canuck pantywipes,


    So you dont completey suck at hockey. Does that really help you? Do you feel better about yourself now? Do you have *ANYTHING* to offer the world other than hockey? What do you have?? A bunch of SNOW? A bunch of psuedo-sophicate euro-wanna-bes dressed all in black? FUCK OFF!


    AND TO WAYNE GRETZY : EAT A DICK!!!

    1. Re:DEAR WAYNE GRETZKY AND CANUCK BASTARDS, by Rcoonzz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Its the only medal we wanted ...its the one we got... i wont tell you to suck a dick since...you already loss the most important medal of all the O Games....hehe....!!!!!! Wouhou...its the best damn sport in the world..and we won the final easily....Caliss que je suis content.....Lemieux je t'adore!!!!!!!!!!!!11

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    2. Re:DEAR WAYNE GRETZKY AND CANUCK BASTARDS, by Pengo · · Score: 0, Offtopic


      He is probably from Canada :)

      Not all Americans are sad they lost, it was a great game and exemplifies why the sport is great.

    3. Re:DEAR WAYNE GRETZKY AND CANUCK BASTARDS, by IronChef · · Score: 1, Offtopic


      Good job, Canuck punk, you have made me rethink the thoughtful message of congratulations I put on my web site immediately after the game. You're making your country look fantastic.

  4. hockey ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That was a pretty good game.

    Mens and man-like womens hockey gold for Canada!

  5. WOOOOO CANADA by swagr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Canada has just won Gold in men's hockey. (And women's in case you missed it.)

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  6. Re:Open Office by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It's up now...

    Stupid "wait 14 seconds" before posting again. I haven't posted in hours. If only the /. crew would acknowledge this is in error (and yes, I get this both using ADSL with dynamic IP and using a non-changable IP).

  7. Added to Troll Library by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Dear Troll,

    We are plesed to inform you that, after careful consideration, we have accepted your troll into the Troll Library.

    You show a masterful skill at trolling.

    Thank you for your time and your contribution.

  8. SINE by 3Suns · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is anyone up for writing SINE (Sine Is Not an Emulator)?

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  9. Lemieux by TJPile · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Being a Pittsburgher, I'm not that depressed Team USA lost the Gold. We at least got a medal. Besides, Mario Lemieux, a Pittsburgh Penguin, won his gold. I'm happy for a man that has done so much for the sport of hockey, and the city of Pittsburgh.

    Wear it proud "LeMagnifique"!

  10. FIRST POST, MOTHERBITCHES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, you all back the fuck off and stand in awe at my l33t first posting skills.

  11. Since when was Solaris FREE? by leereyno · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sun offers Solaris 8 on x86 at no charge for non-commerical and educational use. It does not offer Solaris for free for commercial use. Also there isn't going to be a version of Solaris 9 for the PC, meaning users are being hung out to dry. I shouldn't even have to mention the fact that the source code to Solaris is proprietary.

    Linux on the other hand is FREE in every sense. It's free to use, free to look at, free to change, and free to redistribute.

    I don't know if you're just trolling or if you're seriously deranged. If its the former take some grow up pills. if its the latter take some happy pills. Of course if you're already on drugs JUST SAY NO!

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  12. so what is sun's long-term plan for gnome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    scary thought... sun's funding massive gnome stuff, can they lock that up too? add sun's close-it-back-up attitude to miguel's gnome.net visions, maybe it's time to port everything to kde/qt.

  13. Re:Find A Way by Mayor+McPenisman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Welcome back to lyrics posting!!!

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  14. Breaking news! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Canada won gold at hockey!

    We defeated the bad-sport americans!

    Canada! Canada! Canada!

  15. hell ya! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What a great game! wow!

  16. Re:CANADA WINS! by lukecs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YES WE DO

    CANADA WINS!!!

  17. Re:Does Anyone Actually Use It? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Excellent point...I'm glad I put all 'flamebait' posts with a +5 bonus in the prefs. They're the only ones with any sense.

  18. Re:Abiword and OpenOffice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First off, you _elate_ to nothing. They could have elated StarOffice, but how could they elate to StarOffice. Second, they didn't _elate_ to a thing, nor were they elated by a thing. They simply said they were replacing one small market office suite with another, on Unix platforms.

    Abrogate the trite word of the day calendar before you sound like an errant marplot in front of the great unwashed.

  19. Re:Leveraging their OS position into other markets by sean23007 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The parent to this comment was rated "Overrated." How can a comment be called overrated when the overrated rating is the first and only? Shouldn't it be impossible for the first rating to say "overrated?"

    Seems somewhat ridiculous to me...

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