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Mandrake Policy Change Angers Users

Posted by michael on from the seasons-change dept.

phalse phace writes "Yahoo! News is carrying a ZDNet News article which reveals that Mandrake has decided to change its policy regarding its Mandrake Club. Previously, Mandrake stated that all membership levels would enjoy the same benefits. But since Mandrake Linux 8.2 will include StarOffice 6.0 and Sun is charging for it, they decided to only allow the download of SO 6.0 to Silver members and higher."

3 of 242 comments (clear)

  1. Re:OpenOffice? by bero-rh · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are the same codebase, but unfortunately the codedrop to OpenOffice was incomplete.
    e.g. the Adabas database is missing because it was licensed from a 3rd party, which didn't agree to open the code.

    While OpenOffice is preferrable for most things,
    there are a couple of people who need StarOffice until
    there are free replacements for the missing parts.

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  2. Re:Given the choices by ReinoutS · · Score: 5, Informative
    openoffice-6.0.41-6mdk.i586.rpm

    Included on the third CD of Mandrake 8.2 download edition.

  3. more on announcement from MandrakeClub by jd142 · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you go to:
    http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=1 3

    You will see this as part of the announcement for commercial applications for MandrakeClub members:

    "At this moment it isn't clear what will happen with the StarOffice. How badly do you need this application?"

    This is dated March 8. Before they made the big membership drive, IIRC, or very close to it. Most of the responses below say that they don't care about SO. So, it looks like someone is spreading FUD about Mandrake and that Mandrake needs to be a little bit more thorough is updating its the marketing on its website.