On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 12:14 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > OO.o started as a fork from Star Office which initially was not open - > > but a Sun Product that they bought from some other company. > > Sun bought StarOffice and then open sourced it. Not really a "fork". ---- and it now has an installation base far greater than they could have ever imagined. MySQL already has the installation base despite all the best efforts by MySQL to muddy the waters. Craig