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From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@sd73.bc.ca>
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To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:26:44 -0700
Subject: Re: OSS, Sun, GPL, random ramblings
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> > > 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.

> Star Office 5 was free for personal use.  It was not free for commercial
> use.  Then Sun bought Star Division and made it free (as in beer) for
> everyone.

Yeah, that's right.  Forgot about the personal/commercial thing, since 
I've yet to become a commercial entity.  :-)


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