On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: > There is still a StarOffice website http://staroffice.com/ . However, it > doesn't look like the website offering (StarOffice 9) has kept up with > OpenOffice and is far behind. It also does not look like they are offering > paid support. How many times do I have to repeat this? ;-) Ok, here I go again: It´s no wonder the LO camp was able to spread as much FUD as they did ("evil Sun, Evil Oracle"), when people isn´t even aware of the dual-licensing model Sun had for StarOffice-OpenOffice development... 1. In the beginning, there was a German firm dubbed Stardivision Gmbh. They produced a cross-platform office suite dubbed "StarOffice" which ran -back then- on platforms like Windows 3.1x (16-bit windows), Windows 95 (32-bit windows), OS/2 (32-bit IBM OS/2 Warp), and Linux/Unix too. 2. Sun bought Stardivision Gmbh. First making StarOffice "freeware" (StarOffice 5.1, 5.1a, and 5.2) and then open sourcing it, thus creating OpenOffice.org. 3. Sun continued developing OpenOffice.org and StarOffice (the commercial version of OO.o + proprietary add-ons like commercial spellchecker and thesaurus, commercial clipart, commercial fonts), in parallel. In a way, sales of StarOffice funded the OO.o development, as most OO.o programmers were Sun employees. StarOffice 6.0 = OpenOffice 1.0x StarOffice 7 = OpenOffice 1.1 (+add-ons) Staroffice 7u8 = OpenOffice 2.1 (+add-ons) StarOffice 8 = OpenOffice.org 2.4 (+ add-ons) StarOffice 9 = OpenOffice.org 3.x (+ add-ons) Oracle Open Office = OO.o 3.3 (see below) + Oracle extensions. It was offered as a free update/download to StarOffice 9.x customers. 4. Oracle bought Sun, and choose to rename "StarOffice" to "Oracle Open Office" (without the .org), while continuing to develop OO.o (up to 3.4 alpha AFAIR) This is not different from IBM taking the Apache web server and regularly building "IBM HTTP Server" based on Apache code http://www-01.ibm.com/software/webservers/httpservers/ Then the LO freedom fighters did their magic, killing StarOffice in the process. AFAIK, staroffice.com is not, and was never, an official web site from Sun. The official web site was www.sun.com/staroffice Which you can see archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20081217062402/http://www.sun.com/staroffice and the official support forums were on forums.sun.com http://web.archive.org/web/20090708160107/http://forums.sun.com/category.jspa?categoryID=52 FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@openoffice.apache.org