On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 07:19 +1000, André Wyrwa wrote: > While I can see that commercial mentality would stop other commercial > vendors from implementing their own solution, i don't see the point > about independent os-projects. How many times has something with the > same functionality been produced by distinct OSS projects side by side? > I don't see why MS' move should prevent any other project from working > on that - besides the fact, of course, that everyone might wait and see > what happens there.
Then fork it ;-) > But then I also wonder what happened to that rumored plugin the ODF > Foundation was having in development for Massachusetts? Any news on that > one? I would doubt that they'd drop their effort suddenly because of MS' > announcement. If it ever existed ;-) I really don't know, but it would have been an excellent bluff in the circumstances. Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
