From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jun 13 3:17:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B6737B405 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 03:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f5DAHL624856 ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:17:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id MAA63091 ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:18:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:18:13 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Rich Wilson , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Message-ID: <20010613121813.J57154@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010612193022.K7519@lpt.ens.fr> <001f01c0f3f0$6c73c180$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20010613121302.I57154@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010613121302.I57154@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:13:02PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rahul Siddharthan said on Jun 13, 2001 at 12:13:02: > > "Copyright Regents of the University.... embedded in it" and "Gee, why > > is Microsoft selling MS Office for MacOS X which is a BSD-based OS" and > > They'll take aim at MacOS X too. It's a competitor. The only reason > they give for not porting Office to linux is that there is no demand > for it. Sorry, that was a bit incoherent. I mean, they'll sell Office for MacOS X because they want to sell Office to whoever will buy it, and they realistically know the Mac market isn't going to die anytime soon. But that doesn't mean they're abandoning their Windows Everywhere goal. It won't stop them spreading fud to future customers about Windows being professionally developed as opposed to MacOS X being based on stuff put together by a bunch of hackers... R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message