Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 10:10:49 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Completing the transistion away from MS..... Message-ID: <199809051410.KAA11714@laker.net>
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On Sat, 5 Sep 1998 15:16:20 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Friday, 4 September 1998 at 22:39:50 -0400, Steve Friedrich wrote: >> On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 18:48:40 -0700 (PDT), Jeff Gray wrote: >> >>> Having set up FreeBSD in my home office, and installing >>> StarOffice3.1 I am almost there. To fully manage a SOHO business >>> I must have the ability to read Excel, Word and Powerpoint files. >>> StarOffice does not fully meet this need. >> >> Star Division is in the process of releasing ver 5 and also >> establishing a US office in CA. I sent email to the FreeBSD guy that's >> responsible for the StarOffice port and also to their US division, but >> haven't gotten a reply back yet. Thanks to the backstabbing Caldera >> people, there may only be a Linux port. I'd like to see if we can >> mount a campaign. > >What's the problem running the Linux port? I don't think we need to >look on this as "backstabbing". Jordan Hubbard himself supports Linux >ports before FreeBSD ports. In a recent posting, a FreeBSD user said the versions after 3.1 required a lot of hacking to get to work under FreeBSD and the reason FreeBSD didn't get a port is because Caldera made a deal with StarDivision to not release it on any other free BSD, et.al. What's the explanation for why FreeBSD's port collection contains a port from two years ago ?? >> I do not know if the filter support in ver 5 will convert Excel, Word, >> and Powerpoint files. > >I think you'll find that Microsoft's formats are copyrighted, and >StarDivision won't be allowed to supply converters. I'd like to be >proven wrong. Then how does Lotus and Word Imperfect do it ?? People copyright books, that doesn't prevent me from reading them... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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