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

[mailinglist at endosquid.com (Brendan)]

On Wednesday 07 April 2004 08:33 pm, Jim Long wrote:
> But there were 5 versions of StarOffice first. The OpenOffice source was
> released to the open source community by Sun as they were redesigning
> StarOffice in preparation for version 6. So you could say that both OO
> and SO 6 (and 7) were built on OO source, but Sun was the one who
> developed the OO source in the first place, and released it to the public
> so that free software developers could do their thing and turn it into a
> nice, free office suite.

And...the point is....?
Weren't we talking about the _future_ development of OO/SO?