This, from Nicolas, seems fairly on the money. -Sam On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 21:02 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > 1. Sun open-sourced oo.o > 2. It got oo.o on Linux and *BSD > 3. Which permitted OASIS to consider spending time standardising the > OO.o/SO format > 4. This puts OO.o/SO back on the corporate radar > 5. Which means Sun desktop offerings are sellable again. More > importantly, it helps killing the Office -> VBA/.Net -> MS servers cycle > > Nothing altruistic there, just good business sense. > > Microsoft burnt the price of vendor lock-in in corporate-land .The only > reason OO.o/SO has some value today is because it promised to be > platform and vendor agnostic. Touch this and corporations will drop it > in a blink. And corporations not home users are who pays the Sun jobs. > > (and that's without taking into account the huge pile of FOSS code Sun > uses everyday) > > Customer pressure not love forced Sun to embrace Linux. Its natural bend > would be to build a small monopolistic fiefdom and crush the penguins. > > Altruism ? ROTFL. Sun management can not even put a good face on the > whole affair most of the days. >
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