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On Saturday 10 August 2002 13:27, you wrote:
Licencing it and positioning it as a collection of objects is not too dissimilar from what MS did with their office suite I think, starting around version 6 of Word.Urm, I'd say totally dissimilar. That the technology is OO underneath, it should surprise no one that these things come to be objects, that is just what software looks like these days.
Yes, all I meant was that the collection of objects can be used in way similar to those that MSO should be but rarely is. So that business arguments and habits of integrating systems can be applied to the open world without champions in companies and councils having to reinvent them in detail. MS are bad, and much of the development of thinking on licencing in software and other areas is bad verging on execrable. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.