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Date:      Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:33:34 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OSS, Sun, GPL, random ramblings
Message-ID:  <20000821103333.K4854@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000821140419.B13975@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:04:20PM %2B0100
References:  <20000821140419.B13975@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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* j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> [000821 06:04] wrote:
> 
> i've been reading and thinking lately (uh oh  :)
> 
> Once there are OSS versions of software available,
> is it likely these will grow to dominate, and squash innovation?  Sun is
> releasing OSS applications like staroffice and others.  what will be the
> motivation to write a competing one from scratch?

Becasue last I checked Staroffice was a hunk of junk. :)

-Alfred


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