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Matt, seeing as this is a Red Hat ad, I'm sure they can give you/us better info. But, Notes 8 does comes with Lotus Symphony, which is essentially OpenOffice. Maybe that is what is "open". Because, yes, the core Notes technology is under a proprietary license.
- by penguiniator April 29, 2008 4:37 PM PDT
- Or maybe when they say "open", they mean open formats and open protocols, which do not demand an open source implementation but _DO_ help prevent vendor lock-in none-the-less.
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