Mikes work account wrote:
> I thought SUN had turned over that to open office or some thing
> like that?? What gives?
"What gives" is the fact that Sun couldn't release all the source
code because of commercial licenses of some components (e.g.,
printing, spell checker, etc...). They also mix in additional
commercially licensed components like fonts and filters in the
latest 6.0 release.
What Sun actually did was release what it could dual-licensed GPL
(with them as the copyright holders), the OpenOffice project sprung
up, drastically improved the internals (e.g., XML w/_full_
namespace, unlike Microsoft Office, let alone XML is the default)
and Sun then merged those changes back into a binary-only release
with all the other, commercial components for people who want a
"complete binary release" and support options. It's still free, and
the GPL components are unmodified, so there are no licensing issues.
-- TheBS
-- Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org chat:thebs413 Engineer AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org President SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com
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