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Why is Sun now charging education users for StarOffice Software?

April 26, 2017Education Software StarOffice Sun Users

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Why is Sun now charging education users for StarOffice Software?

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With the core binaries between StarOffice Software and OpenOffice.org the same, users desiring a free office suite from Sun can use OpenOffice.org. Sun’s software strategy is built around an open source version for free that has unlimited licensing flexibility and a commercial or professional version that offers indemnification among other services and is for a fee. To be consistent with this strategy and to clearly differentiate between StarOffice Software and OpenOffice.org are the main reasons for this new policy.