From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 22 13:33:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop1.gte.net (smtppop1pub.gte.net [206.46.170.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3110637B43C for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:33:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net (evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net [4.34.146.5]) by smtppop1.gte.net with ESMTP ; id PAA14512655 Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:28:17 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:31:52 -0700 (PDT) From: The Clark Family X-Sender: res03db2@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net To: j mckitrick Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OSS, Sun, GPL, random ramblings In-Reply-To: <20000821103333.K4854@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sun keeps getting credit for Star Office. Just to set my memory straight, wasn't Star Office a standalone GPL project, even before Sun came along? And while I'm asking lame questions, what was Java called before the marketing people named it Java? [RC] On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, 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. :) > > -Alfred > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message