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Sun Microsystems scored a big sales win Monday, landing Canada's elementary and secondary schools as its latest customers for the open source-based StarOffice 7 office productivity suite. The Ontario Ministry of Education acquired StarOffice licenses for all the province's 72 public and Catholic school boards, making it potentially the largest StarOffice 7 delivery in North America. As a result, about 2.5 million students eventually will have access to one of the leading alternatives to Microsoft Office.
Isn't it just incredibly ironic that the one product that Sun is really making some good money on (the StarOffice group IS profitable, folks) is the product that they happily released as open source, but they still refuse to open Java, which isn't making any money? (At least not directly -- they make money from Java support and services, which they'd still make if it were open source.)
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