Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:32:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: Smc659@aol.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: StarOffice giveaway of source code Message-ID: <199909011532.KAA14113@free.pcs> In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/8a24adf3.24fe9e65@aol.com>
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In article <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/8a24adf3.24fe9e65@aol.com> you write: >Heres what suns web page says: > >"Our aim is to .com office productivity. We are publishing the StarOffice >specifications and will make the source code available through the Sun >Community Source Licensing program to encourage industry-wide collaboration >on future versions of the software. " Besides, Sun has done this before. Former NextStep people on the list might remember Lighthouse Design; they made several really good products, and Sun bought them with the intention to resell their office suite. So what happened? Objective-C got drowned by the Java tidal wave, and Sun apparently just dropped everything related to O-C in the trash can. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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