MS-Sun agreement re:OO.org

Bob Bell bbell at hp.com
Wed Sep 15 17:22:01 EDT 2004


(sorry lost original context)

I don't think that this has to be fake.  It seems to be like Sun and 
Microsoft formed an agreement, and MS said "but I don't want any of this 
to apply to that Open Office thing you've got there -- we don't really 
like that", and Sun just said "fine".  Microsoft may just be wanting to 
guard against MS Office-related patents being implemented in an open 
source product.  Doesn't necessarily seem all that unreasonable to me...

-- 
Bob Bell



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