Re: [libreoffice-documentation] History

[Hazel Russman <hazeldebian@googlemail.com>]

Here is the first paragraph:
In the mid-80s, the German student Marco Boerries, then 16 years old, was living as an exchange student in Silicon Valley. He was so enthusiastic about the tech scene that he began to develop office software (later known as StarOffice (TM)). In 1986 he founded the Star Division company with headquarters in Hamburg. It was bought in 1999 for $73.5 million by Sun Microsystems. Star Office (TM) 5.1a was the first version of the software to be published by Sun. The current version 9 Star Office (TM) appeared in November 2008. The OpenOffice.org project was founded 13.10.200 by Sun to develop this leading international office suite, which runs on all major platforms and provides access to functions and data through transparent interfaces and an XML-based file format. It is based on of the source code for StarOffice (TM) 5.2 as well as technology that Sun has developed for future versions of StarOffice TM. The source code is written in C++ and provides language-neutral and scripting functionality, including Java-based APIs. These allow you to use the suite either as separate applications or embedded into other applications.

On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 12:39:37 +0100 (BST)
Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
> The English version apparently wasn't written by a native English speaker.  Obviously Star Office was bought BY Sun not "from" Sun.  Most people probably wouldn't notice little slips like that as the meaning was very clear due to the context.  
> Regards from
> Tom :)
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 9/4/12, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol <ol@sophia-louise.de> wrote:
> 
> From: klaus-jürgen weghorn ol <ol@sophia-louise.de>
> Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] History
> To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org, website@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Monday, 9 April, 2012, 12:30
> 
> Hi all,
> I need your help.
> Volker has made a page in German to show the history of LibreOffice [1]. I took this and let Google translate it [2] because my English won't be that good to give it the right note.
> Can the English speaking have a look at this page with right wording and grammar? We can put the content to our website as a subpage of [3] and in our documentation, dvd etc. if you want to do so.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/History/de
> [2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/History
> [3] https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/
> 
> -- Grüße
> k-j
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