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Introduction

OpenOffice.org is both a product and an open-source project. If you are

new to OOo, its open source development, and the community that

produces and supports it, you should read this appendix.

A short history of OpenOffice.org

The OpenOffice.org project began when Sun Microsystems released

the source code (“blueprints”) for its StarOffice® software to the open

source community on October 13, 2000. This allowed Sun to use the

technical expertise and rapid development times of an open-source

project in the development of its own software products. All recent

versions of Sun’s StarOffice use source code developed by the

OpenOffice.org community. However, the products do not provide

exactly the same features due to the copyrights of third parties that

are not compatible with open-source licensing.

OpenOffice.org 1.0, the product, was released on April 30, 2002.

Read more about OpenOffice.org’s history and organization at:

http://about.openoffice.org/

Information about StarOffice can be found at:

http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/

The OpenOffice.org community

OpenOffice.org's Mission Statement is:

“To create, as a community, the leading international office suite

that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all

functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an

XML-based file format.”

The OpenOffice.org project is primarily sponsored by Sun

Microsystems, which is the primary contributor of code to the Project.

Our other major corporate contributors include Novell, RedHat,

RedFlag CH2000, IBM, and Google. Additonally over 450,000 people

from nearly every curve of the globe have joined this Project with the

idea of creating the best possible office suite that all can use. This is

the essence of an “open source” community!

With its free software licence and active Native Language

Confederation, OpenOffice.org is a key player in the drive to eradicate

digital exclusion and preserve minority languages threatened by being

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