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- From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Free spreadsheets (was: Fund raising at the FSF)
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 21:07:46 GMT
- Organization: U. C. Berkeley
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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?
-
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- Joe Buck jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu
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