From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 14 14:34:52 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 7184E37B507 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 14:34:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 50241 invoked by uid 100); 14 Apr 2001 21:34:44 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15064.49780.575271.567653@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 16:34:44 -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: 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 6:44 AM +0000 4/14/01, Kris Kirby wrote: > > This is a damn good case for StarOffice. Too bad they don't have a Mac > > port... yet. Mac OS X is out, right? > Sun recently announced that StarOffice will never be ported to > MacOS X. Instead, they refer people to the OpenOffice.org site that > is trying to set up a cross-platform freely available Office > implementation, but which right now has nothing but plans and hopes. 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. While Terry is right that the best way into the Unix desktop market is to have a dekstop that acts exactly like Windows - which StarOffice provides - this strikes me as a really silly thing. Sort of like adding a daemon that reboots the system every ~47 days in order to break into the Windows server market. If I didn't want a desktop environment that's better than Windows, I'd just run Windows. If I really wanted an office suite that looked like Windows on a Unix desktop, I'd just access Windows via vnc. 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