From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 26 11:23:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA09535 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 11:23:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA09478 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 11:22:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA26976 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 21:21:31 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA23407 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:21:31 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id TAA15143 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:09:36 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603261809.TAA15143@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FYI: StarOffice 3.1 free for Linux To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:09:35 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603261341.OAA29670@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Mar 26, 96 02:41:32 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Wolfram Schneider wrote: > UNIX: Linux > (Vorraussichtlich verfügbar im zweiten Quartal '96) > [estimated available second quarter 96] > StarOffice 3.1 > kostenlos, mit speziellem Lizensierungsverfahren > [gratis, special license agreement] I've once tried to convince them of a FreeBSD port, but they didn't really like the idea. Seems they've been too annoyed by the Linux port. Disclaimer: this has been about a year ago, when the first signs about the Linux port appeared. Now that they've got a Slowaris port, things might be easier to port for them (if they've done it right). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)