On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:41:35 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> OpenOffice showed up because Sun wanted to sell SPARCstations and
> couldn't without having MS Office on them.

Well, OpenOffice was previously StarOffice, made by the company 
StarDivision.  It was originally closed-source and cross-platform.  Sun 
bought StarDivision, but Sun certainly didn't start the OpenOffice 
product.

Jim

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