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On 28/10/2010 06:26 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 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.
Sun? Heh. I'm still getting used to the fact that now when I install
OpenOffice, it was Oracle plastered all over it. (I'm pretty sure under
Sun the corporate branding was much less in-your-face. Also, the colour
scheme was nicer. Oracle has given it a kind of blank-white look, like
they didn't finish it or something...)
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