From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 15 0:19:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D646A37B43E for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:19:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 96187 invoked by uid 100); 15 Apr 2001 07:19:38 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15065.19338.850049.104004@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 02:19:38 -0500 To: Brad Knowles Cc: Kris Kirby , Terry Lambert , Rahul Siddharthan , Brett Glass , Chip Wiegand , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Just an observation - MUA's seen in the lists In-Reply-To: References: <15064.49780.575271.567653@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles types: > 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 : > > | 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". In that case, you're not reading carefully enough. I just highlighted the phrase "source code" for you. It's in the sentence I quoted above. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message