From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 15 0:24:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from picard.skynet.be (picard.skynet.be [195.238.3.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E17E37B440 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:24:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.241.123] ([194.78.241.123]) by picard.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f3F7O4219817; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 09:24:05 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <15064.49780.575271.567653@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 09:24:00 +0200 To: Mike Meyer From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Just an observation - MUA's seen in the lists Cc: Kris Kirby , Terry Lambert , Rahul Siddharthan , Brett Glass , Chip Wiegand , FreeBSD Chat Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 8:53 AM +0200 4/15/01, Brad Knowles wrote: > I see the word "technology" here, not the term "source code". It > sounds to me like they're trying to do a complete redevelopment of the > project using purely open source methods and APIs, and not bringing the > entire source code base for StarOffice and making that the foundation of > the project. I've since found a reference to MacOS in Sun's StarOffice 5.2 FAQ pages at : | 23. When will the StarOffice suite be available for Mac OS? | | The StarOffice suite is not available on the Mac OS and Sun has no plans to | market a Mac version of StarOffice software. An Mac OS X porting project is | available on http://porting.OpenOffice.org/mac enabling a third party ISV to | create and release a native OS X office productivity suite. | | | 24. Will Sun support the Mac port efforts available through OpenOffice.org? | | Sun's contribution to the open source community is to provide significant | core system technologies, documentation and an alpha | testing/visualization implementation. Sun engineers have made significant | efforts and paved new roads in this endeavor, bringing core system | technologies and native code of the application to the Mac platform. This | provides the open-source community with a jump-start towards delivering | a native Mac OS X office suite. The developer and ISV community can build | upon the Mac OS X alpha reference implementation to compile, debug, | expand and eventually deliver to the market a native Mac OS X office suite. | Sun will continue to support OpenOffice.org code through its sponsorship of | Collab.net, providing the documentation and infrastructure to encourage | adoption and maturity of this product. Again, it appears to me that they have basically dumped certain bits of StarOffice onto a web site and allowed others to have access to that content, but everything I've read about this so far indicates that this is much worse than Netscape & Mozilla, much less any of the other pseudo open-source projects. -- Brad Knowles, /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message