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An Early Look at StarOffice 8
polar_bear` writes "NewsForge has an early review of Sun's StarOffice 8, set to be released in mid-October. From the article: 'StarOffice 8 is not perfect, but it is an excellent value for businesses that do not depend on proprietary Microsoft formats for production work.'" And yes, for the uninitiated, NewsForge is still owned by the same parent company as Slashdot.
Correct. StarOffice was originally propriatary closed source. Sun bought it and opened the nonprotected code (some of it is used under commercial license, which is one of the reasons StarOffice has to cost money) and OpenOffice branched off from that, but many of the OpenOffice developers are actually Sun developers.
You can think that OpenOffice is to StarOffice as Fedora is to Red Hat. The current "community" developed code base that the commercial product is developed from, but having started with the code base of the commercial product in the first place.
KFG
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=orthogon says that Webster's says an orthogon is a rectangular figure. Therefore orthogonal := rectangular, and OP makes no sense.
I guess today is a passable day to die.
> but like all programs that are not Microsoft Word, Writer will never convert every single [Word] document perfectly.
Pardon me for playing grammar nazi, but you have a subordinate clause there (highlighted) which adds no information to the sentence, and, in fact, can actually confuse and mislead people. It's like saying, "Carol, like all people that don't have blue eyes, needed oxygen to breathe." This can leave people with the mistaken impression that people with blue eyes don't need oxygen to breathe, or, in your case, with the even more laughable notion that programs which are Microsoft Word will convert every single document perfectly.