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Sun and Apple Team Up for StarOffice for Mac OS X
An anonymous reader writes, "CNET writes about Sun and Apple getting together to create StarOffice for the Mac OS X." Apparently, the Java-based OpenOffice app will be released before year's end (a developer release went out on Thursday), with a commercial StarOffice release sometime next year.
i really hate this. tech announcements that seem good, but then suck.
apple and sun team up. yeay! to port open office to os x. yeay! in java. oh fuck.
this is like the os x one. apple switches to unix. yeay! they'll be using the freebsd variant as a base. yeay! they're designing a proprietary gui. oh fuck. and in the end os x came out great, except that it was hard for the ***typical*** end user to gain access to *thousands* of x applications. think where we'd be if apple put their minds to improving x11.
what is with this urge to do things almost right, but to screw it up in a way that will hurt things in the end.
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There are some serious rumours to the effect that product was deliberately ... how to put this ... less than polisished ... as an attempt to appease M$, who were in 'negotiations' for the 25% (hah!) buy-in.
That said, I've always prefered WP over Word (OK, excluding that Java pos) ... it's always been more stable, more customizable, generally more powerful, and basically just that much better for the thinking user than Word. I've seen people whacking their computers over 'smart' features built into Word.
And Star Office retails around ~$80 US hereabouts ... about ten bucks more than I paid two months back for the latest (legit) Corel Suite (WordPerfect, QuattroPro, Paradox, Dragon Speak (still the best voice recognition out there)).