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Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 08:53:47 +0200
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: Just an observation - MUA's seen in the lists
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At 4:34 PM -0500 4/14/01, Mike Meyer wrote:

>  According to the FAQ on StarOffice became OpenOffice. "All of the
>  StarOFfice source code is available ... ". While complaining that
>  you'd rather have a product than source that someone might port, would
>  you also complain if Sun did the port and then charged for it while
>  giving away the Linux version for free? After all, there's not a lot
>  of incentive to port a product with an expected gross sales of $0.

	From <http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/main_faq_new_p2.html#1>:

| 1.  What is OpenOffice.org?
|
| OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems
| has released the technology for the popular StarOffice[tm] Productivity
| Suite. All of the StarOffice source code is available under the GNU Lesser
| General Public License (LGPL) as well as the Sun Industry Standards Source
| License (SISSL). Sun will participate as a member of the OpenOffice.org
| community going forward. OpenOffice.org is being hosted by CollabNet.

	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.

	Maybe I'm wrong, but if I am, it is in no small part due to the 
very confusing way that they've worded their FAQ, etc....

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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