On 10/30/2010 08:15 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > So, do you take offense with StarOffice
The issue is that Oracle is taking open source code, and making it exclusively closed source. >and the fact that Oracle / Sun makes money selling licenses with support? I don't have an issue with selling support licenses. >Note that the final product contains proprietary content (or at least last I >checked it did). Gresham's Law. >In the very early days, regular expressions and the database component were part of the proprietary content. Contrary to the OOo marketing material, OOo has contained a database engine since at least version 1.0. > I have worked with more than one company that are not willing to move to a > product that does not have support provided by the company that produces it. As Darl so wonderfully told the court: "We did not need the copyrights to run the business." jonathon -- No human will see non-list, non-bulk, non-junk email sent to this address. It all gets forwarded to /dev/null
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