Date   : Tue, 08 Feb 2000 21:34:39 -0000
From   : "ER Vaughan" <e.vaughan@...>
Subject: Re: Copyright theft

Yes I definitely recommend Star Office. It also runs on my favourite OS,
FreeBSD.

Heh, shame about the beeb version :)

Emil


----- Original Message -----
From: Colin & Kim B <seebee@...>
To: Wayne Allen <wayne@...>
Cc: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: 08 February 2000 20:28
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Copyright theft


> Going off on a bit of a tangent here:
> If you would begrudge paying Microsoft for their office software then
> don't buy it. You can get a complete office productivity suite for FREE
> from Sun Microsystems called StarOffice. Documents are fully
> interchangeable with MS Office. Either download the 65 meg install file
> or pay a modest fee for a cdrom of it to be shipped to you. Details at
> http://www.sun.com/staroffice
>
> Basically Sun is now doing to Microsoft what Microsoft did to Netscape.
> It runs on Solaris (SPARC and Intel processors), Microsoft Windows
> 95/98/NT, OS/2, and Linux, unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a
> version for the Beeb.
>
> - CB
>
>
> Wayne Allen wrote:
> >
> > I personally begrudge paying Microsoft 400/500
> > ukpounds for office software....
>