Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 08:53:47 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Just an observation - MUA's seen in the lists Message-ID: <p05100124b6fef48ed0ba@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <15064.49780.575271.567653@guru.mired.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104140628540.16456-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com> <p05100122b6fdf4108ace@[194.78.241.123]> <15064.49780.575271.567653@guru.mired.org>
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At 4:34 PM -0500 4/14/01, Mike Meyer wrote: > According to the FAQ on StarOffice became OpenOffice. "All of the > StarOFfice source code is available ... ". While complaining that > you'd rather have a product than source that someone might port, would > you also complain if Sun did the port and then charged for it while > giving away the Linux version for free? After all, there's not a lot > of incentive to port a product with an expected gross sales of $0. From <http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/main_faq_new_p2.html#1>: | 1. What is OpenOffice.org? | | OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems | has released the technology for the popular StarOffice[tm] Productivity | Suite. All of the StarOffice source code is available under the GNU Lesser | General Public License (LGPL) as well as the Sun Industry Standards Source | License (SISSL). Sun will participate as a member of the OpenOffice.org | community going forward. OpenOffice.org is being hosted by CollabNet. I see the word "technology" here, not the term "source code". It sounds to me like they're trying to do a complete redevelopment of the project using purely open source methods and APIs, and not bringing the entire source code base for StarOffice and making that the foundation of the project. Maybe I'm wrong, but if I am, it is in no small part due to the very confusing way that they've worded their FAQ, etc.... -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net> */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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