<div dir="ltr">Nobody said that M$ is the root of evil and Sun is the source of all good.<div><br></div><div>Even if the tactics and ways of M$ and Sun are equally ugly, and I really can't answer on that, the key difference is that Sun is pushing a product that first and foremost promotes open standards and that is *good*. As longs as their biz ways are not truly sickening, I think that its better than the same approach taken by M$ - but to push a closed source, irreplaceable product that further enhance their dominance not due to technological supremacy. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I have absolutely no warm feelings about Sun. Its just that open standards (ODT in this case) is in the right direction, and it happens that Sun is pushing in that direction as well. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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On Feb 5, <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012" target="_blank">2012</a>, at 10:02 PM, Boaz Rymland wrote:<br>
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So it was ok for SUN to buy StarOffice and give it away in order to reduce MS/Office sales?<br>
OpenOffice's free price and open source was a marketing tool too.<br>
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Before you go "you must be anti FOSS" on me, bear in mind there were many true FOSS office type products (word processors, a spreadsheet or two) and so on, that were crushed by StarOffice (and OpenOffice).<div class="HOEnZb">
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