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

[john-thomas richards]

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.
-- 
john-thomas
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