Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:19:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas <marc@netstor.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice giveaway of source code Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909011016110.6517-100000@medulla.hippocampus.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909011100520.8660-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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> > Also, don't discount the possibility that Sun may be talking about this in > > order to achieve some leverage with the likes of (say) Microsoft. For > > example, "If we don't get [xxx] from you, we'll do something to hurt your > > cash cow, MS Office".. Maybe I'm just being too cynical though, but I'll > > believe it when I see it. > > >From a marketing standpoint, wouldn't it make for some seriously bad press > for Sun to state "open source" and then turn around and not do it? *raised > eyebrow* Didn't they actually kinda do this when they announced the availability of Solaris source code, and then that didn't really seem to materialize the first time around? Maybe my recolection of events is somewhat blurred... -marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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