Re: Stupid or Corrupt
> LibreOffice started as the Sun office suite in the eighties
And, before Sun bought it, it was StarOffice from Star Division. Star Division had developed a GUI framework called StarView, for MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, Mac and others, that it was trying to sell. StarView, and the demo version (which I had obtained), included example programs among which were a word processor and a spreadsheet. Star decided that it was going to make more money from selling software, such as StarOffice which had been developed from the examples, than it was from StarView.
Sun bought Star Division because it was cheaper to buy this and distribute StarOffice to all its employees than it was to buy licences for MS Office.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
