Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:18:09 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice giveaway of source code Message-ID: <199909011818.MAA19088@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Sep 1999 11:01:36 -0300." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909011100520.8660-100000@thelab.hub.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909011100520.8660-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909011100520.8660-100000@thelab.hub.org> The Hermit Hacker writes: : From a marketing standpoint, wouldn't it make for some seriously bad press : for Sun to state "open source" and then turn around and not do it? *raised : eyebrow* Those who don't know about history are doomed to repeat it. Sun originally released Java in a fairly free and open way, then layer went back and tightened things ot the point that open source groups could not get copies. They fixed that, but Sun can be schizophrenic at times. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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