StarOffice under the GPL ?

[kmself at ix.netcom.com]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:36:06AM -0300, petruzza wrote:
> I heard and read about Sun will release the source of StarOffice suite
> in october.
> Someone know that is truth ?
> What you think about ?
> This step will make SOffice better ? faster like Netscape, when the
> source was freely ?
> I think that change will shake like a hurricane with other companies and
> her suites, more than when Sun buys StarDivision.

StarOffice will be released under the GNU General Public License and the
SISL (a Sun-written variant of the Mozilla Public License) on October
13, 2000.

Info:  http://www.openoffice.org/project/www/press/sun_release.html

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