Valusoft Office Suite 2007 at Walmart

[JacobRogers]

I was at walmart and in the office section there was something called "Office Suite 2007" made by valusoft for $20.00 American. The box for it didn't say very much but it said something about sun microsystems on it. I was wondering if "Office Suite 2007" is based on Open Office or something like that. I could barely find anything about this product online but I did find this page:


Office Suite 2007

Have you ever heard of or seen this? Do you think it's based on Open Office. I think it's cool that it's in the stores.

[lisati]

Well, "open office" is based on a product from Sun Microsystems - this could be another offshoot

[sumguy231]

Odd, I can't seem to find anything about it anywhere other than that page. I just hope it's not as terrible as almost everything else THQ publishes.

Edit: They call those things screenshots?

[LaRoza]

Edit: They call those things screenshots?

I was thinking the same...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_office_suites It is didn't make the list.

[ugm6hr]

There are other similar examples. This looks like something else that is presumably OpenOffice-based...
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/126060

[Techwiz]

Never heard of it.

[popch]

They call those things screenshots?

There's one (1) screenshot, in the top left sample. Looks more like a shot of Firefox than some office suite to me.

[rowanparker]

If they are OO based then shouldn't they have to release the source somewhere?
And yeah, most awful screenshots. A google image search didn't yield any results either.

[bobpaul]

Sun StarOffice is OpenOffice with some extras. I realize StarOffice is the product that was used as the starting point for OpenOffice, but since StarOffice is a superset of OpenOffice, I believe it is considered a derivative.

So if StarOffice is a derivative that contains closed source code (grammar check and whatever else) then may be legal ways for others to branch off as well.

I see OpenOffice is licensed under the LGPL. Maybe there's a dual license in effect for StarOffice?

[swoll1980]

Thq single handedly destroyed the credibility of the nintendo entertainment system