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I guess Sun doesn't believe in minor releases anymore (everything is x.0). If I remember rightly, the last pre-OOO version of StarOffice was 5.2 and the first based on OOO was 6.0 (based on OOO 1.0). The OOO 1.9 thread (destined to become OOO 2.0) is still in beta, so how does StarOffice get to 8.0? If Sun did what I think they did, SO 7.0 should have been 6.1 and the upcoming 8.0 release should be 7.0 (or 6.2, depending on how different it is from the existing OOO 1.1).

Such practices have the double disadvantage of being (a) dishonest and (b) ineffective (ie. they don't fool anyone).
Posted by: John L. Ries   Posted on: 08/12/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Bogus reporting... sigh...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/12/05
WRONG!  vdraken | 08/12/05
Where you been? Geez...  quietLee | 08/12/05
Even mo' for the homie  quietLee | 08/12/05
Ummm..  vdraken | 08/12/05
Buy yourself a clue. PLEASE  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/12/05
OK, for those who didn't understand No_Axe . . .  CobraA1 | 08/12/05
OpenOffice is more than a way for the community to be involved.  DonnieBoy | 08/12/05
So your a big NotePad user huh?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/13/05
When you have a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail, eh?  CobraA1 | 08/14/05
There is no fork, they are both based on the same code base.  DonnieBoy | 08/12/05
Version inflation  John L. Ries | 08/12/05
Well, yes, and if Linux were a comercial product, we would be on version 12  DonnieBoy | 08/12/05
Interestingly enough...  John L. Ries | 08/12/05
Maybe not...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/13/05
Except...  John L. Ries | 08/13/05
Just try to find...  Fred Fredrickson | 08/14/05
Huh? I have copies of them.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/14/05
Word, not M$ Office  kls@... | 08/18/05
Re: Version inflation  CobraA1 | 08/15/05
Re: Version inflation  John L. Ries | 08/15/05
I really wonder what will be in it...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/13/05
perhaps  CobraA1 | 08/13/05
XML script?  Fred Fredrickson | 08/14/05
No, script to import and export XML  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/14/05

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