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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KOffice for BeOS
From:       "Peter Hutnick" <phutnick () texas ! net>
Date:       2000-01-31 17:16:18
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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" <jasonk@usa.net>
To: <koffice@kde.org>
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
>
>

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