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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: OSS, Sun, GPL, random ramblings
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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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