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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 2002 22:22:52 -0600
From:      Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>
To:        FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: run Microsoft Office without Windows
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020329221726.01dcc1e8@threespace.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020329211251.03040d70@nospam.lariat.org>
References:  <200203300129.UAA14630@threespace.com>

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At 10:15 PM 3/29/2002, Brett Glass wrote:
>At 06:21 PM 3/29/2002, Chip Morton wrote:
>
> >http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/03/29/020329hncodeweavers.xml 
> ?0329frpm
> >
> >So do you all think this will be a boon to Linux, a blow to Microsoft, or
> >both?
>
>I think it smacks of hypocrisy. Codeweavers just recently insisted upon
>converting the WINE code base from an X11-like license to the LGPL, because
>they claimed that it was wrong for other companies to make money by doing
>their own products based on WINE. And here they've come out with one....

I saw somebody refer to "Brett" on one of the WINE discussion boards and 
wondered if they were talking about you.  I guess I should have known you 
wouldn't miss a chance to do battle with someone ready to embrace the LGPL. :-)

Anyway, I thought it was odd too that Codeweavers had a "working" 
commercial product based on an Open Source codebase that didn't work quite 
as well despite the fact that they claimed to submit numerous improvements 
to the Open Source version.  How the heck does that work?

<< Chip Morton >>


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