Jan-Oliver Wagner writes:
no, you are not going mad :-) StarOffice is _no_ Free Software.
Yesterday I had a talk on Free Software and GIS at University of Munster and exactly the same statement came up from the audience. It is really interesting how it evolved that so many people think of StarOffice as Free Software.
I experience the same problems :-( Sun deliberatly marketed it to achieve this result. Since OpenOffice is Free Software people say StarOffice and OpenOffice interchangeably and they even *use* StarOffice because OpenOffice is Free Software. To me it's like using Oracle because MySQL is Free Software. There is hardly any rationale in this behaviour but it's there anyway. I guess the only thing we can do is to constantly remind people that OpenOffice is Free Software, not StarOffice. That reminds me of people not willing to see the difference between the Open Source movement and the Free Software movement.
Cheers,