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Article #1708Free spreadsheets (was: Fund raising at the FSF)
From: Joe Buck
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:07
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:07
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In article <2B5192CA.B54E@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >According to tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith): >>Uh, nearly everyone I've heard of who wrote a spreadsheet was a programmer! > >People will do for money lots of things they won't do for fun. Those >who write (as opposed to maintain) free software generally do it for >fun, not for money. And there's not much money in giving things away. There's another issue for spreadsheets as well: the "natural order recalc" software patent, which, as best I can tell, makes it illegal to write a spreadsheet that recalculates its cells based on a topological sort of their dependencies (meaning, I suppose, that to work around the patent you have to do the recalc the wrong way). How does Oleo deal with this one? -- Joe Buck jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu
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