I checked out OEone's Flash demo. That thing is too cool! I'll have
to read more of how they incorporated opensource into the final
product http://www.oeone.com
Mario
>On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 08:52, Mikes work account wrote:
>> I don't understand why two entities are following the same track on
>> this,,with exceptions. I just read the OpenOffice statement on the
>> differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice and one would wonder why we
>> would want OpenOffice as it appears to have less functionality.
>>
>> Can someone clear all this up for me as I am attempting to create a working
>> desktop to replace the MS Desktops in our office.
>
>Basically think of OpenOffice and StarOffice in the same relationship as
>Mozilla and Netscape. OpenOffice is the open-source codebase, where
>StarOffice is the "Sun-enhanced" codebase, possibly enhanced with
>proprietary and/or third-party-licensed code - stuff they can't
>open-source because they don't own it. Conversely, StarOffice, if Sun
>has finally decided to only offer it commercially, will help pay for the
>continued development and support of OpenOffice. (It seems to be about
>the best open-source business plan around - commercial, more
>feature-filled version helps subsidise the development of the
>open-sourced and free version.)
>
>StarOffice will probably continue to be more feature-filled than
>OpenOffice, but OpenOffice will (hopefully) give rise to various
>associated projects, kind of like the way the OEOne computer uses a
>8---snip---8<
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