[Opinion] How does 'that company' treat free software? ------------------------------------------------------ [Opinion piece written by Richard Stallman] "Several years ago Sun bought StarOffice, a proprietary office suite. Sun released a version of this program as free software, under the name OpenOffice.org . This greatly extended the capabilities of free software. However, Sun continues distributing StarOffice as a proprietary program. The two are not the same, so there is a certain tendency for OpenOffice to act like demoware for proprietary software. Nonetheless, it is very useful in and of itself. It is a major contribution with a cloud over part of it."
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