ferry schrijft dat Sun gisteren alle 9 miljoen regels code van Star Office 6 alpha beschikbaar heeft gemaakt voor de open source community, maar dan wel onder de GNU Public License (GPL) en de Sun Industry Standard Source License. Star Office 6 zal gebruik gaan maken van XML om data op te slaan en is voorlopig beschikbaar voor Solaris, Linux en Windows. Sun hoopt dat de open source community hetzelfde zal doen voor Star Office als voor Mozilla. Gezien de overweldigende belangstelling van gisteren zou dat misschien weleens kunnen gebeuren:
PALO ALTO, CA - July 19, 2000 - Today at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Monterey, California, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it will release the source code of its StarOffice (TM) Suite, a leading, high quality, office productivity application software suite, to the open source community under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Sun also announced OpenOffice.org will be formed and managed by Collab.Net and will serve as the coordination point for the source code, the definition of XML-based file formats, and the definition of language-independent office application programming interfaces (APIs.)
StarOffice is the leading, full-featured productivity suite for all major platforms, including Solaris (TM) Operating Environment, Windows, Linux, and, later in the year, the Macintosh. StarOffice 6, the next version currently in development, will serve as the source code base for OpenOffice.org. With the upcoming StarOffice 6 technology, the next generation architecture of separate applications and componentized services will be introduced.
"Sun's open-sourcing of StarOffice Suite is the single largest open-source software contribution in GPL history and it adds a key application suite to the open source portfolio," said Marco Boerries, vice president and general manager of webtop and application software at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "This announcement will leverage StarOffice Suite's role as the leading productivity suite for multiple platforms and will further increase our momentum as the only competitive alternative to other office suites. Sun will also continue to develop and aggressively market future versions of StarOffice Suite, which will be based on OpenOffice.org."
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