[kanchilug] Re: [Ilugc] Oracle sells ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office
- From: Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:28:22 +0530
On 04/22/2010 12:17 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote:
> Friends.
>
> It is a sad news that
> Oracle is charging $90.00 U.S. for the ODF plugin for MS Office.
> http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/get.jsp
>
> The Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office gives users of Microsoft
> Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint
> the ability to read, edit and save to the ISO-standard Open Document
> Format (ODF).
>
> It was available for free before Oracle bought Sun.
>
> It is too bad for the community.
>
> Will it happen to OpenOffice and MySQL?
>
Unlike the ODF plugin, Openoffice.org and MySQL are open source.
Rahul
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