From owner-cvs-ports Mon Apr 14 16:07:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA22083 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:07:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de (bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.63.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA22052; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:07:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from campa.panke.de (anonymous214.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.214]) by bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA06243; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 01:06:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id AAA00727; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 00:39:51 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 00:39:51 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199704142239.AAA00727@campa.panke.de> From: Wolfram Schneider To: Michael Smith Cc: ggm@connect.com.au (George Michaelson), msmith@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/staroffice - Imported sources In-Reply-To: <199704110220.LAA08535@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <16076.860724321@connect.com.au> <199704110220.LAA08535@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith writes: >Because StarDivision are a small company, and a group of their >employees have gone out on a limb and done the Linux port at obviously >considerable personal credibility risk. Demanding another port of >them would be unlikely to enthuse them at all, especially when we >emulate the Linux ABI so well. StarDivision is a major player in Germany. StarDivision sells some 20-50000 user licenses to large German companies. -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/