From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 11:19:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3719514CAF for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA13135; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:18:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA19088; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:18:09 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199909011818.MAA19088@harmony.village.org> To: The Hermit Hacker Subject: Re: StarOffice giveaway of source code Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Sep 1999 11:01:36 -0300." References: Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:18:09 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message 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