Lars D. Noodén wrote:
I thought that was much of the goal with Mono - to take OSS developers
out of circulation and put them to work on something 100% dependend on
MS.
Seriously though, MS has been a growth-though-acquisition style
company buying companies if it can't make a deal to get the
technology, and making a deal if it can't get away with simply copying.
MS probably can't affect OOo too much unless it can break Sun somehow
or if it can somehow get hold of the developers like it did with Borland
-Lars
As I understand it, the way that OOo is licensed, if Sun were to be
bought out or driven out of business, OOo would simply end up being
forked and would continue on without Sun. It would probably end up
becoming a foundation with independent developers continuing its
development. OOo has grown and developed to the point where I don't
think that there is anything that M$ could do to stop it short of open
sourcing M$ Office.
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