Re: [Pan-users] Re: OT: freedomware vs... Was: Building Pan on Windows?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:25:06 am Leslie Newell wrote:
> > That's what's nice about standard formats such as text/plain,
> > text/html, and image/jpeg.
>
> Indeed but what happens for example if you write a word processor
> that has more formatting options than HTML?

You mean something like the open standard OpenDocument used by 
OpenOffice, Abiword, WordPerfect, KOffice, Google Docs and many others?

> My challenge to you is to come up with a business model where I can
> both eat and make my code open source.

It works for Eric Raymond, Guido van Rossum, Richard Stallman, and 
hundreds of others.




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Steven D'Aprano