From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 7: 6:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat203.199.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.203.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E22814C41 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 07:06:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA42239; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:01:37 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:01:36 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Peter Wemm Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Dominic Mitchell , Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Perth , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice giveaway of source code In-Reply-To: <19990901135456.4B5EC1CA8@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > Where sun are involved, I wouldn't get your hopes up until you actually > > > see source or something. And I wouldn't exactly call them quick, > > > either. > > > > This is wise counsel. > > 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* Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message