I really believe that the owners of Star Division were only waiting to be purchased by a "global player". It could be IBM, Red Hat, Sun, Novell... On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Heitor Moraes wrote: > > > It's impossible to say that. > > We will never know. > > > > Maybe there is a philosophical sense where you can't know anything > absolutely, but there is a very causal event here where Sun gave OpenOffice > an open source license that it didn't have before. Without the open source > licensing, it's a pretty sure bet that it wouldn't be in fedora and we > wouldn't be discussing it now. (And without it's commercial history it > probably wouldn't be something you'd want to use, either). > > -- > > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
