Re: [tdf-discuss] A copy of MSOffice

Sure - that's cool. I was merely thinking the Sun developers might
have seen their goal as beiong to mimic MS office rather than create
something better.

Sadly that was partly my impression. But I'm glad Libre might be
different in that aspect :)





On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 22:09, Carlos Jose Lenarts Ramis
<godaxen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry OOo/LibO is not a copy of MSOffice, this is a rough resume of the
> OOo/LibO story:
>
> 1985: StarWriter for Amstrad CPC y Zilog Z80.
>
>  1991: StarWriter 5.5 for DOS  and is also released StarDraw 1.0 and
> StarBase  1.0.
>
> 1995: StarOffice 3.0 for Windows, OS/2, Mac
>
> 1996: StarOffice 3.1 for Windows, OS/2, Linux.
>
> 1999: StarOffice 5.2 the first SUN version
>
> 2000: OpenOffice.org
>
> And if you put the program menu layout it has it roots at least from
> WordPerfect (1980)  / WordStar (1978), if we put the history of MSOffice and
> OOo/LibO and it's parts in a timeline they are pretty similar.
>
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