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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.'"
Without a WYSIWYG document editor Linux is in big trouble. I predict that Solaris will slowly steal Linux's market share away. If you disagree with me then you are wrong. Look at it this way: What advantage does Linux have over Solaris?? None, they are both free Unix. What advantage does Solaris have over Linux?? A billion dollar company that does developmment and a free Office clone.
Ninjak confirms: Linux is dying.
This was doomed to fail from the beginning. It's just not good enough. Never was. Sad but true.
Too Bad Star Office Stinks.
Their user base will plummet below 30 now!
Boy, what a red-white-and-blue post. So Canada is better at hockey than the US? They are also better than the most other nations, and you don't see /. overwelmed with upset Fins.
That post wouldn't have happened if the US was knocked out like Sweden was because then they wouldn't care about Canada. But in typical sore loser fashion if they can't brag about winning they can atleast try to make their loss seem unimportant or make fun of the country that beat them.
bah.. its just a game.
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
we rock.
Sorry did you see the women's American ref? 10 times as bad. But the Canadians still won. What can we deduce from this? No matter who the ref is in favour for, Canada will win.
PROOF that Canada is a much better country than the US:
- A Canadian engineer invented ice cream.
- People don't fly airplanes into Canadian buildings.
- The worlds greatest computer scientests are Canadian.
- There are no Canadian editors at slashdot, we don't want to be affiliated with such trash.
- Canada KICKED USA's ASS 5-2 a few minutes ago!!
THAT'S RIGHT USians!!! CANADA WHOOPED YOUR ASS!!! 5-2 - WASN'T EVEN CLOSE!!
In honor of the HORRIBLE, HUGE, MONSTOROUS BEATING the Canadians delivered to the sorry USians, I'd like everyone on slashdot to join me for the singing of our national anthem, THE BEST NATIONAL ANTHEM EVER:
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
Oh, and here's the USian national anthem:
Oh say can you see
Blah blah blah, we suck at hockey,
Our dicks are small,
We wish we were as cool as Canada,
We're all hicks
USia sucks
Blah Blah Blah
And the home of the brave
CANADIAN PRIDE BITCH!!
Well, I think we can predict that unless there's a change in this policy, we'll see a fairly rapid death of Star Office on platforms other than Solaris. Sun must be confused: do they really think that there's some compelling reason to use Star Office other than the fact that it's free? It would be interesting to see whether the resulting decline of Star Office on non-Solaris platforms actually leads to a decline in its use on Solaris as well... I would expect it to happen, actually.
If I were management and I wanted to pay for an office suite, I'd use MS Office -- why bother with this silly Star Office thing, especially after seeing those past versions that took over the whole desktop?
Of course most flames and trolls have much more words than that.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
OpenOffice is unusable: as anyone subscribed to debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org knows, people have been trying to get it to build for well over a year, with no success (let alone being able to make a debian package out ot if).
OpenOffice is the biggest "open source" scam that Sun has pulled to date. I would be tempted to put it in the same fiasco category as Netscape when the unbuildable source was first released to the public, but I just can't believe that Sun dosen't know any better, or that they wouldn't allocate developer resources to making it work.
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If I was you, I would be ashamed to say that I work for Sun. Especially now.
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Negroes will only excel over caucasians in sports wherein they're physically superior, like running and jumping. Hockey requires a combination of skills like balance, speed, precision, team play, tactics and spitting chewing tobacco. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, and I'm sure we'll see the Tiger Woods of hockey some day, but negroes will never be dominating in more "advanced" sports.
Also, seeing a black ho doing figure skating would be outright nauseating.