Re: [LI] RE: StarOffice

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Rahul  Kumar wrote:

> Also, how is Chip managing to put SO on CD ?

CHIP had permission to put SO *4.x* on a CD of theirs based on some
agreement that CHIP Germany had with Star Division for a CHIP Special on
StarOffice in July 1998. I have that issue (and that CD) here.

(StarOffice is the #1 office suite in Europe, far outselling Microsoft
Office there, and this deal was stuck just before SO 5.0 was released to
increase the market reach, i.e.people wanting to upgrade).

I can only imagine that the same strategy was the idea behind SO 5.0 on
the CHIP CD here in India. However SO 5.0 does not work with glibc 2.1
based systems (which is just about every distro today).

Sun Microsoystems no longer permits any kind of redistribution of SO in
any form other than download from their site or purchase. This also stops
PCQ (as well as CHIP or anyone else) from putting SO on their CDs, unless
Sun changes its policy (which is not likely). "Free", it appears, is
relative. 

In addition, RedHat has announced that international editions of RedHat
Linux will no longer include SO on the applications CD - apparently on
behest of Sun (check the bottom of the page at
http://www.redhat.com/products/rhl_packages.html). One can expect that
SuSE and others will follow suit.

It *looks* to me like Koffice is going to have a *huge* market when it
comes out. Question now is - when is that? RedHat Linux 6.1 already ships
with Qt 2.x which is what is required for Koffice to run. 

Has anyone here actually used any Koffice component?

Atul


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