Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 09:24:00 +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: <p05100126b6fefc0c9343@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <p05100124b6fef48ed0ba@[194.78.241.123]> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104140628540.16456-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com> <p05100122b6fdf4108ace@[194.78.241.123]> <15064.49780.575271.567653@guru.mired.org> <p05100124b6fef48ed0ba@[194.78.241.123]>
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At 8:53 AM +0200 4/15/01, Brad Knowles wrote: > 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. I've since found a reference to MacOS in Sun's StarOffice 5.2 FAQ pages at <http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/5.2/faqs-general.html>: | 23. When will the StarOffice suite be available for Mac OS? | | The StarOffice suite is not available on the Mac OS and Sun has no plans to | market a Mac version of StarOffice software. An Mac OS X porting project is | available on http://porting.OpenOffice.org/mac enabling a third party ISV to | create and release a native OS X office productivity suite. | | | 24. Will Sun support the Mac port efforts available through OpenOffice.org? | | Sun's contribution to the open source community is to provide significant | core system technologies, documentation and an alpha | testing/visualization implementation. Sun engineers have made significant | efforts and paved new roads in this endeavor, bringing core system | technologies and native code of the application to the Mac platform. This | provides the open-source community with a jump-start towards delivering | a native Mac OS X office suite. The developer and ISV community can build | upon the Mac OS X alpha reference implementation to compile, debug, | expand and eventually deliver to the market a native Mac OS X office suite. | Sun will continue to support OpenOffice.org code through its sponsorship of | Collab.net, providing the documentation and infrastructure to encourage | adoption and maturity of this product. Again, it appears to me that they have basically dumped certain bits of StarOffice onto a web site and allowed others to have access to that content, but everything I've read about this so far indicates that this is much worse than Netscape & Mozilla, much less any of the other pseudo open-source projects. -- 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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