From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 21 11:30:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD30337B43C for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.255.98.91]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000821183031.NVON317.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:30:31 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01567; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:30:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:30:26 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: j mckitrick , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OSS, Sun, GPL, random ramblings Message-ID: <20000821193026.D258@parish> References: <20000821140419.B13975@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000821103333.K4854@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000821103333.K4854@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:33:34AM -0700 Organization: Total lack of 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. :) > But at least it isn't a Microsoft hunk of junk :) > -Alfred > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message