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1 History

StarOffice was originally developed by the German company StarDivision , founded by Marco Börries in 1986. The development of the integrated StarOffice started at the end of 1994. Until version 4.2 StarOffice was based on the platform independent C_Plus_Plus class library StarView .

The company and the rights to StarOffice were acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999 for US$73.5 million, as Sun were seeking to compete with Microsoft Office. Sun soon offered StarOffice 5.2 as a free download for personal use.

Sun then went through a similar exercise to Netscape's release of Mozilla by open-sourcing most of the StarOffice code-base. The resultant open-source codebase is developed as OpenOffice.org and is contributed to by both Sun and the open source community. Sun then takes a "snapshot" of the OpenOffice.org code base, integrates proprietary and third-party code modules and markets the package commercially.

Added proprietary components include:

• Several font metric compatible UNICODE TrueTypeTrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. The primary strength of TrueType is that it offers font developers a high degree of control over precisely how t fonts containing bitmap representations for better visuability at smaller font sizes
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• Some templates
• Clip art gallery
• Some sorting functionality for Asian versions
• File filters for most of the older wordprocessing applications (including EBCDICEBCDIC (Fully, "Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code") is an 8- bit character encoding used on IBM mainframes and AS/400s. It is descended from punched cards and the corresponding six bit binary-coded decimal code that most of IBM's computer per)

Traditionally, StarOffice licenseA license or licence is a document or agreement giving permission to do something. The spelling license is usual in American English. In British English, licence is the noun form, and license is the verb, so a when a licensee has a licence they are licenss have been sold for around 70 USDThe United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. It is also widely used as a reserve currency outside of the United States. Currently, the issuance of currency is controlled by the Federal Reserve Banking system. The most commonly u, but in 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co, Sun planned to offer subscription-based licenses to JapaneseJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh customers for about 1,980 JPYNatsume Soseki. New yen notes will enter circulation, replacing these, on November 1, 2004. Yen is the currency used in Japan. In Japanese it is usually pronounced "en", but the pronunciation "yen" is standard in English. The ISO 4217 codes for the yen ar (19 USD) per year (Becker, 2004). P. Ulander, a desktop products manager for Sun, acknowledged that Sun planned to expand subscription-based licenses to other countries, as well. Sun offer educational licensing to academic institutions and individuals for the cost of the media or of a download.