On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:10:09 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> 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...)

That's one reason I use the Novell edition. :-)

Jim

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