Arstechnica discusses the details surrounding the CNet/Sun/Apple/StarOffice article and subsequent retraction. In doing so, their conclusion is as follows:
So there is (or was) quite clearly an Apple-Sun project in the works to port StarOffice (not just OpenOffice, but StarOffice) to OS X, and in fact if you read the past two days' collection of PR clean-up stories closely enough you'll see that Sun hasn't really denied that such a project exists.
