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To: JC Jaros who wrote (19483)	9/8/1999 3:54:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (1) of 64865

I thought Debian recently recognized the SCSL as kosher? What makes it un-kosher is that you cannot sell modified versions commercially without paying a kickback to Sun. I agree with the pale imitation of crap thing. I'm not sure that doesn't apply equally to KDE/Gnome. In fact, it may be StarOffice is less so because of it's integrated suiteness and having an actual end-game, which is transitioning the bloatware off of the desktop altogether. Yes, I was considering the StarPortal thing to be a completely separate product from StarOffice. My "crap" comments should not be assumed to apply to StarPortal because I have never seen or used it. :) I think the "integrated suiteness" of StarOffice is exactly what I dislike about it. But that is a purely subjective thing. I like the back-end integration of Gnome... the shared libraries, the printing architecture, and the "bonobo" replacement for OLE (based on Corba). It would be nice to see this merged with the StarOffice version of OLE, so we can get some interoperability. -Mitch

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