Editing StarOffice (section)

==== 5.2 ====
5.2 was released 20 June 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://betanews.com/2000/06/20/staroffice-5-2-released/ |title=StarOffice 5.2 Released<!-- Bot generated title --> |date=20 June 2000 |access-date=2013-09-19  |archive-date=2014-01-11  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111004134/http://betanews.com/2000/06/20/staroffice-5-2-released/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Sun offered StarOffice 5.2 as a free download for personal use, and soon went through an exercise similar to [[Netscape]]'s relicensing of [[Mozilla]], by releasing most of the StarOffice source code under a [[free-software license|free]]/[[open source license]]. The resultant free/open source software codebase fork continued development as [[OpenOffice.org|older discontinued components]], with contributions from both Sun and the wider OpenOffice.org community. Sun then took "snapshots" of the OpenOffice.org code base, integrated proprietary and third-party code modules, and marketed the package commercially.

StarOffice 5.2 was the last version to contain the programs listed under [[#Older_discontinued_components|older discontinued components]]. It was also the last version to support multiple virtual desktops, previously available from within the Suite.

Supported platforms included: MS Windows 95/98/NT/[[Windows 2000|2000]], Linux i386, Solaris Sparc/x86.