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To: Thure Meyer who wrote (24029)	7/20/2000 9:25:21 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Respond to of 24154

Thure- I hear the name is going to be changed to MutualSoft. Anyway, like Clark I'm warming to them too. Bill's "damn the torpedoes full speed ahead to the money" does have a good side as long as you don't have a responsibility to keeping the system running. With my stocks tanked and the trial in the doldrums I've been doing a huge amount of work trying to win the world's record for fastest database system for under $1,000. Dual CuMine CB0's and Ultra2 SCSI. DB2 for Windows and then if I live long enough DB2 for Linux for comparison purposes. Harvey

To: Thure Meyer who wrote (24029)	8/2/2000 1:41:10 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Welcome to MozOffice.org! Right now this page is in its infancy, as is the idea behind it – but already it's a powerful one: a Mozilla powered editor that breaks down the barriers between word processors and Web site editors. Imagine a cross-platform office-productivity application that creates standards-compliant Web-ready code by default and can save these same files to formats compatible with modern word processors, including WordPerfect, Word, and even .txt files – all with the power of Gecko and XUL. Then take that a step further with spreadsheet and presentation capabilities, also compatible with current solutions like Excel and Powerpoint. And then picture it all based on open source code. What makes this crazy idea possible? Well, when Sun announced that StarOffice will become open source under the OpenOffice.org project last week, they made the important decision to license the StarOffice source code under a dual license that includes the Limited General Public License (LGPL) that is compatible with the Mozilla Public License (MPL) and Netscape Public License (NPL). (The full GPL is not compatible with MPL and NPL, which is why Mozilla can't integrate with Linux, for example). Note: The press release at Sun.com mentions licensing under the GPL in general rather than the LGPL, but the licensing page at OpenOffice.org clarifies this glaring oversight, thankfully.) Thanks to this cunning decision by Sun, Mozilla developers are now free to include StarOffice code into Mozilla and Mozilla-based applications Once the source code to StarOffice open via CVS on October 13th. Microsoft certainly won't like it – indeed, Sun's move is nothing short of a gun to Microsoft's head – but if browsers are free then why shouldn't decent office software also be free? For more info on the OpenOffice project, see www.openoffice.org. Check back here for updates. I have registered the mozoffice.org domain and am now looking for a host for it. As soon as I find one, this site will be available at www.mozoffice.org. MORE TO COME: This site is a placeholder that I hope to turn into an organizational centerpiece for what I think has the potential to be the most powerful side of Mozilla yet (and Microsoft's worst nightmare). Fight the Microsoft.NET world-domination strategy! Join with MozOffice.org! COMMENTS? QUESTIONS? E-mail me at kovu401@netscape.net. MOZILLA.ORG -- OPENOFFICE.ORG -- MOZILLAZINE.ORG Site created by James H. Russell (aka Kovu). Thanks to Dave Titus for the original Mozilla graphic in the title above, courtesy of Netscape Communications. Site last updated July 23, 2000 members.home.com