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
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