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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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