On 1/17/05 12:12 AM, "Jonathon Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anthony wrote: > >> Really Sun's decision making in this matter baffles me. > > They probably ran some projections, and the numbers for the Mac fell > short. How short is anybody's guess. Im not sure I believe that - it wouldn't have taken a big team of programmers - and they were already working on it. > Unfortunately for Sun, very few other companies have devoted > programming effort to OOo. In that respect, their gamble hasn't paid > off. I think that may happen as the product grows. Its really the defacto office suite on Linux, and is quickly growing on Windows (I expect that 2.0 will really boost this). >> unless Microsoft intends to drop support for Office on the Mac > > a) Microsoft more or less announced that a year or two ago. Apple > convinced microsoft to at least provide Office for a few more years. Not true, they complained about the sales of Office v. X and Apple's marketing of OS X. This was around the 10.1 days. Well, Office 2004 is selling at more than twice the clip of the previous version of Office. > b) Apple does not support FLOSS. Apple has never supported FLOSS. It > violates their business model. KHTML, Rendezvous, Quicktime Streaming Server, and gcc are Apple supported projects that quickly come to mind. Apple supports open standards (and often Microsoft ones) because in a world where they are the minority interoperability is good. Its pretty core to their business model ... Tony --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
