>From Slashdot:
Sun to Charge for Star Office 6.0
Posted by michael on Sunday February 24,
@05:08PM
from the death-of-a-thousand-pinpricks dept.
biwillia writes: "According to this heise article (in German,
or Google translated), free versions of Star Office will now
only be available to Solaris users. Free versions for Linux
and Windows users will no longer be offered. A homemade
translation of the first paragraph reads, 'With version 6.0 of
Star Office, scheduled to be released in May, Sun has
changed the product politics of their Office package, which
had been freely distributed since the aquisition of
Hamburg-based Star Division. In the future, Sun wishes to
charge license fees for usage of the Windows and Linux
versions. Only the version for Sun's own operation system
Solaris will remain free.'"
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