Another reason to add to my hate of Microsoft!

Post by **gannon** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:38 pm

Microsoft made a large deal with Sun Microsystems around September 16, 2004. If you have a copy of Open Office that was installed after April 1, 2004, or if you distributed a copy after that date, Microsoft can sue the $%*# out of you! If you want to get around this new deal, you have to buy Sun's new Open Office type program that they call StarOffice, but the thing is that you have to BUY it, no more open source for us!

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:48 pm

Tart downloading red hat with open office.

poppe · Post by **poppe** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:05 pm

Who do you think they are going to sue first, they guy who just installed openoffice or the one that just installed the copy of xp he got off usenet? I have yet to be sued for the latter.

Post by **gannon** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:13 pm

lol, go ask them to sue you, see what kind of response you get

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:33 am

But how can they find out. I know a guy who has a buncha copies of illegal windows xp. What should HE do.

Post by **gannon** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:11 am

Turn off windows update so they don't scan his copies serial #

Post by **Sparkfist** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 7:13 am

If you look on G4techtv.com search for open source word processor. The people at the sreensavers taked about one, the name I can remember but it did start with an "A".

Geebs61 · Post by **Geebs61** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:11 am

gannon wrote:Microsoft made a large deal with Sun Microsystems around September 16, 2004. If you have a copy of Open Office that was installed after April 1, 2004, or if you distributed a copy after that date, Microsoft can sue the $%*# out of you! If you want to get around this new deal, you have to buy Sun's new Open Office type program that they call StarOffice, but the thing is that you have to BUY it, no more open source for us!

I dont mean to be picky but...

Microsoft holds the right to sue you, it doesnt mean they will. The agreement wasoriginally aimed toward the developers, not the users. There is a hole in the clause that allows them to sue the users. Also, StarOffice isn't new. Prior to 1999 StarOffice was open source, but sun bought out its parent company. They then created an open source clone to StarOffice which happened to be OpenOffice. OpenOffice is based off of StarOffice. Do you really think MS will go after all the users of OpenOffice? Thats just absurd.

Post by **gannon** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:50 am

Well in my opinion Microsoft is absurd.
Also, I knew about the star office thing, I just didn't post it. They bought it out from a german company.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:55 pm

Bottom line: Microsoft sucks.

shelter pitfall · Post by **shelter pitfall** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:55 pm

http://img125.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img125& ... rosoft.jpg
WHy won't I buy Microsoft office? it sucks... also... who the hell is sun?
I never liked star office. I remember it a long time ago. ya, it sucked.
so why is http://www.openoffice.org/ still distributing it? (note the sun logo on the bottom)

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Another reason to add to my hate of Microsoft!

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