Re: FN-FORUM: Apple sues over leak (OT)

date posted 6th January 2005 16:06

They need to get some shit hot well priced software sorted out (not Claris
Wanks either) to compete against Office - I should imagine it will be a
reskinned and improved version of OpenOffice

Best Regards

John

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From: "Jamie Wilson" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Apple sues over leak (OT)


>
> John Kyle wrote:
>
> >and its own line of office software.
> >
> >(you think they have ripped off OpenOffice with new icons perhaps????
lol)
> >
> >
> Quite possibly, as is their right to do. It's what they did with Safari,
> taking an existing opensource project, adding improvements, and then
> putting a nice GUI on top. Go Apple.
>
> Much like what Microsoft did to come up with their TCP stack. Except
> without the nice GUI[*], or giving of imporvements back[**].
>
> ...j
>
> * - not that the stack itself needs a nice gui
> ** - it's an assumption, but a fairly safe one. admittedly the licensing
> of the BSD stuff allows for exactly this scenario. Go Microsoft.
>
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