[CS-FSLUG] Ontario offers Sun's StarOffice to students

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 06:24, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:13:27PM -0600, N. Thompson wrote:
> > Thats certainly interesting, I wonder if Saskatchewan might follow along 
> > eventually :-) .
> > 
> > I've just noticed one potential problem with this, OpenOffice.org 
> > doesn't seem to have filters for Staroffice except up to version 5.x. 
> > Unless Staroffice also uses the OO.o format I don't think the two are 
> > compatible with each other.
> [snip]
> 
> openoffice.org and staroffice are essentially the same pieces of
> software.  the name is changed and some of the eyecandy is changed but
> the underlying mechanics are identical.  the file formats are the same.

I've heard that isn't neccesarily true though I don't know. What I've
heard is that it is "cleaner".

JSR/