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What are the differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org?

The differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org can be accounted for in two ways:

A. Differences between StarOffice 5.2 and the future of StarOffice

The source code has undergone some significant changes since 5.2 was released. Some of these changes are:

These are all changes that were decided upon by Sun Microsystems before the source code was released to the community.

B. Differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org

The source code available at OpenOffice.org does not consist of all of the StarOffice code. Usually, the reason for this is that Sun pays to license third party code to include in StarOffice that which it does not have permission to make available in OpenOffice.org. Those things which are or will be present in StarOffice but are not available on OpenOffice.org include:

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