From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 21 10:37:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F9437B423 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:37:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13QvW7-000L4B-00; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:37:47 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA18336; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:37:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:37:46 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OSS, Sun, GPL, random ramblings Message-ID: <20000821183746.D17647@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000821140419.B13975@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000821103333.K4854@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000821103333.K4854@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:33:34AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:33:34AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: | * j mckitrick [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. :) touche'. but the NEXT one is supposed to be cool. :) component design and all. jcm -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message