[ale] Near FAQ: OpenOffice-1.0 and StarOffice-6.0 comparison

[Greg]

Printer drivers, mainly.  StarOffice contains several proprietary stuff that
Sun could not "give away" or GPL so what they could became OpenOffice.
StarOffice also has support, which is important to many (certainly suit
types).

Greg Canter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of John
> Mills
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:11 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Near FAQ: OpenOffice-1.0 and StarOffice-6.0
> comparison
>
>
> Dow, all -
>
> Thanks for the comment.
>
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Dow Hurst wrote:
>
> > You know all the clipart, templates, and wizards in MSWord?  Well, you
> > get alot of that kind of stuff in StarOffice 6.x when you buy it.
> > Openoffice doesn't come with that.
>
> I don't use much [any, yet] clipart in my documents, but templates could
> be helpful.
>
> 'NotherQ, this compared to M$ Word - I tend to use the document
> structuring features of Word quite extensively (outlining, expanding,
> moving sections around), and not infrequently the master/sub document
> breakouts. How do Open- and Star-Office compare to (1) each
> other, if they
> differ, and (2) M$ Word (>=97) in these regards?
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
>  John Mills
>  john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
>
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