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From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@sd73.bc.ca>
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Subject: Re: OSS, Sun, GPL, random ramblings
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> Sun keeps getting credit for Star Office.

> Just to set my memory straight, wasn't Star Office a standalone GPL
> project, even before Sun came along?

Not sure about the GPL part, but it was free (as in beer) before SUN 
got ahold of it.  Version 5 was the first free ver I believe (that's 
when I first heard of it) but previous version were payware.

> And while I'm asking lame questions, what was Java called before the
> marketing people named it Java?

Something along the lines of Oak.


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