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Sun, Microsoft Pact Viewed As 'Unholy Alliance' Against Linux,

Subject: Sun, Microsoft Pact Viewed As 'Unholy Alliance' Against Linux,
From: jimlong at engineer.com (Jim Long)
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:27:30 -0500

> Robert La Ferla wrote: I also wonder how this will impact Open
Office...

> Derek replied: Sun still needs an Office package..

Sun&#8217;s commercial office package is Star Office. It contains 
some proprietary and licensed code that can&#8217;t be released 
into Open Office. I guess the concern is that Sun could stop
releasing improvements to their open source offshoot.

Jim Long

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