From koffice Mon Jan 31 17:16:18 2000 From: "Peter Hutnick" Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 17:16:18 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: KOffice for BeOS X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=94933921205428 I hate to make ugly on the list but . . . 1. BeOS 5 is not free (as in money) yet. Be is paying lip service to making it "free for non-commercial use," but as I am fond of saying "talk is NOT cheap, it is free." 2. Allowing non-commercial use of software free of charge is not an uncommon thing, and in my opinion this is at best a very minor step "closer to the FSF model." I would equate this with saying "My Geo Metro is one step closer to being a Fararri because I painted it red." -Peter P.S.: As a side note, I am a capitalist, and if Be offers a good commercial product I think that the market will give them commercial success. I am not a mad GPLer, nor do I think that software companies are hurting anyone by producing commercial products. I just don't like B.S., and I believe in calling a spade a spade. P.P.S.: Jason, I hope that you won't take any of this as a personal attack. I just felt that your comments required response. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Kwan" To: Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 10:28 PM Subject: KOffice for BeOS > Dear KOffice developers, > > Since BeOS lacks a full-blown office suite on par with MS Office, and it > is POSIX compliant, wouldn't it be pretty easy if someone could port > KOffice to BeOS? so people who need office productivity suites would > have another OS choice other than Windows or Mac. They can chose between > Linux for networking or BeOS for media editing. Esp. now that BeOS 5 is > one step closer to the FSF model. > > Good luck on KOffice, and I hope to see the 1.0 release with KDE 2.0 > ASAP. > > Jason K > Palo Alto, CA > >