From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 21 6: 4:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B0B37B42C for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 06:04:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13QrFV-00087l-00 for chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:04:21 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA15763 for chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:04:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:04:20 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: OSS, Sun, GPL, random ramblings Message-ID: <20000821140419.B13975@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i've been reading and thinking lately (uh oh :) Once there are OSS versions of software available, is it likely these will grow to dominate, and squash innovation? Sun is releasing OSS applications like staroffice and others. what will be the motivation to write a competing one from scratch? jcm -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message