Update: It has happened. You can read the gory details: here. Bill Roth, Group Product Manager at Sun for OpenOffice.Org. has announced that the open sourcing of StarOffice will be proceeding on time tomorrow 10/13/2000. An early version of the source for StarOffice 6.0 will be available in a CVS repository on the site as well as the OpenOffice.org front page getting a facelift. Open sourcing StarOffice will make its components available for use in open source medical projects.