From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 7: 9:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D232414C41 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 07:09:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA16148; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 07:08:23 -0700 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 07:08:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: Peter Wemm , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Dominic Mitchell , Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Perth , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice giveaway of source code In-Reply-To: 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 > > > > 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* Wouldn't cause them a second's pause. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message