Re: OT: HP embraces Linux even more
From: Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy (Andrew_No.Harrison_No_at_nospamn.sun.com)
Date: 03/30/04
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:23:56 +0100
Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:
> Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy wrote:
>
>> Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bob Koehler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In article <4062868B.FABD2425@istop.com>, JF Mezei
>>>>> <jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Seems HP will now start to offer more Linux boxes, including
>>>>>> desktops to
>>>>>> ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS ONLY, due to high demand from enterprise
>>>>>> customers for
>>>>>> lower cost servers/desktops. These will not be available to the
>>>>>> consumer market.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Will they ship OpenOfiice on them? Or are they doing something to
>>>>> avoid depending on Sun's good will?
>>>>>
>>>> What like develop their own Office product ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I believe you are confused, StarOffice is Sun, OpenOffice is GPL.
>>>
>>
>> No its you who is confused, StarOffice is OpenOffice plus some
>> commercial additions. If you look on the openoffice.org web
>> site you will discover that a very very high % of the owners
>> of indevidual project streams have @sun.com email addresses
>> mainly because Sun does most of the openoffice development
>
>
> But the difference is that with StarOffice, they would need to depend on
> Suns 'Goodwill' where as with OpenOffice, they can be just takers,
> participate, or fork their own GPL efforts but none of the later three
> make then 'Dependent on Sun.'
>
Having access to the source code is one thing, having access
to the people who developed the source code is another.
The bulk of the OpenOffice/StarOffice developers work for Sun.
Your point also cuts both ways, any development that HP for example
did to OpenOffice because it is released under GPL is also available
to everyone else including Sun.
Sun clearly doesn't have an issue with that, we are after all by
far the largest contributor of IP to the OpenSource community, it
remains to be seen if HP who have made much more modest contributions
are like minded.
Regards
Andrew Harrison
> Barry
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