Historical take on the Sun/Apple StarOffice rumor

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About three years back some folks may remember the single week of virulant rumormill headline manifestation of a purpoted Sun/Apple alliance to develop StarOffice for Mac OS X. Well, it never existed. Anyone who's been following trinity, NeoOffice/J, or the porting mailing lists for the last three years has known the truth. Unfortunately, conspiracy theorists still abound and now in light of an iWork spreadhseet app posit that a secret operation existed.

While waiting for compilers at work, I authored a laconic take on the whole situaion (here's hoping I don't get fired for it). It's the most accurate I've done to date In short...

Thanks Tony! If you hadn't fucked up in your interview NeoOffice wouldn't exist. You kick ass!

ed <--- wants a st. bernard puppy

[sardisson]

That was very informative, Ed, thanks! I never connected the dots between Patrick and the Tony's Java port, for one. Sheds some more light onto the murky early years of the "NeoOffice twins," /J and /C

Plus I love the last line of the post that replied to you...facts and sources, on /.!

Smokey

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I got a kick out of the reply as well. I figured I'd link to it from here since it's the most compact history I ever wrote. My work machine was sucking wind with XCode. I thought CodeWarrior sucked memory, but XCode + gcc4 takes the cake by far. I had many hours of either staring at build progress bars or doing something useful...

ed

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