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1. Comment - StarOffice 8 Faces Delays, MS Pressure

   (Aug 14, 2005 - 2:14 AM)

   Of course, the StarOffice they're replacing is most likely StarOffice 5, which was indeed awful and had lots of compatibility issues. The StarOffice versions based on OpenOffice didn't start until 6.0, in 2002, presumably well after Osama started eluding them due to other people's bullet points looking dodgy on their screens. (For those who aren't reading between the lines, the message here is "Open source helps terrorism," even though the version of StarOffice they were using wasn't open source at all.)
   
   It seems likely that another upgrade cycle came around and they went to Microsoft saying "Hey, Sun quoted us this price... want to beat it and get some positive press?"