From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 31 22:35:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A2F15092 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:35:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA28310; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:33:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199909010533.WAA28310@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Sun to buy staroffice & release source ? In-Reply-To: <7710.936163323@localhost> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 31, 99 10:22:03 pm" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:33:33 -0700 (MST) Cc: rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I'm not sure it really screws anyone since Applixware and StarOffice > have different feature sets and don't actually compete head-to-head > despite the fact that they both appear to be in the same application > space. Applix appears to be the more mature of the two products (it's > certainly been around longer) and has a good reputation for not > falling over. Well, the Applixware folks may claim they don't compete head-to-head. And Corel may claim that WordPerfect Suite doesn't compete head-to-head with Micro$oft Office. But to a consumer, the "word processing/presentations/spreadsheet/data base/e-mail/web browsing" toolkit hits the same user space no matter who's name is on it, or how the GUI looks. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message