From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 8:35:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [208.139.222.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6AD21534A for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 08:35:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA20911 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:33:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from free.pcs (free.PCS [148.105.10.51]) by right.PCS (8.8.5/8.6.4) with ESMTP id KAA16998 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:33:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by free.pcs (8.8.6/8.8.5) id KAA14113; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:32:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:32:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <199909011532.KAA14113@free.pcs> To: Smc659@aol.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: StarOffice giveaway of source code X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-hackers In-Reply-To: Organization: Architecture and Operating System Fanatics Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: >Heres what suns web page says: > >"Our aim is to .com office productivity. We are publishing the StarOffice >specifications and will make the source code available through the Sun >Community Source Licensing program to encourage industry-wide collaboration >on future versions of the software. " Besides, Sun has done this before. Former NextStep people on the list might remember Lighthouse Design; they made several really good products, and Sun bought them with the intention to resell their office suite. So what happened? Objective-C got drowned by the Java tidal wave, and Sun apparently just dropped everything related to O-C in the trash can. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message