Re: Sun goes fully open source!

[Dave Baker <dsb3@earthlink.net>]

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote:

> Ben Collins wrote:
> > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's crap and they
> > are only hoping to capitalize on the hardwork of others without giving them
> > anything truly worthwhile in return.
> 
> Hi, what about a free office suite? It's somekind of a return, isn't it?
> (http://www.sun.com/staroffice/).

Unless they changed the license recently, this (stareoffice) is only free
in the monetary sense, not the freedom sense.

I'd rather use Vim.

-dave

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