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Source: (Timur_Tabi@Dell.com)
Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
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First off, I want to impress on people the significance of 
this announcement.  StarOffice 5.1 for OS/2 is available for 
free (like it always was), but now the source code will be 
similarly available.  This means that Star Office will never 
suffer the fate of some other OS/2 products like DeScribe 
and Lotus SmartSuite.  With the source code available, OS/2 
programmers can fix bugs and add features as they see fit.  
This is a great day for OS/2.

Now for some real news.  To download the Sun version of Star 
Office (it's probably the same as the Star Division 
version), go to 
http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html.  You can 
also order a CD for $16 that contains all English or all 
German versions (yes, including OS/2).  The press seems to 
be ignoring the OS/2 version, but Sun isn't.

The source code is apparently not yet available.  I 
personally am very interested to see what tools they use to 
compile it. It's quite possible that the OS/2 version is 
built on a different OS. 

One thing that some people are missing is that the source 
code will (most likely?) be released under the Sun Community 
Source License, which is a far cry from the GPL. For an 
overview of the SCSL, see 
http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/faq.html.  
Basically, there are some severe restrictions on the 
distribution (even internally) of modified source code.

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Timur Tabi
Desktop BIOS Development
Dell Computer
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