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Re: [LUG] Star Office, GPL licenses & Open Local Government ?



Couple of things:-

1.  Star Office GPL or not?
http://perens.com/Articles/StarOffice.html
"On Wednesday, July 19 2000, Sun Microsystems promised that it would place 
StarOffice under the GNU General Public License on October 13, 2000. This 
entirely addresses the objections I made in the following article. Thanks, 
Sun! "

I think they did do that, did they not?


2.  
we already have a linux test workstation box with OpenOffice.org 6.0. We
also have a training team who do Desktop support. I have suggested that
they may like to evaluate OpenOffice

One thing I'd suggest there is that once you have a demo machine on the 
network that you offer VNC viewer for WIndows users, and set up several Linux 
sessions running VNC server, so that people can log on very easily and have a 
Linux desktop on their Windows machine for a while.  Your stroling players 
could do that in order to give people the chance to try a letter or two from 
their usual desk and machine.


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From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley 
http://www.defoam.net/             

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