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OpenOffice 2.0 and Java

« H E Technology :: email
posted Wednesday, 11 May 2005
The FSF is looking for volunteers to maintain a version of Openoffice that doesn't require a non-free Java platform.

Uh... why?

For one thing, they can always ask the Harmony people to get crackin', I suppose, which means OpenOffice 2.0 might get free Java support sometime in 2010... while OpenOffice 4.0 is being released. (Okay, I admit it, I'm all for Harmony as a project but I have my doubts as to whether they'll be able to release anything soon.)

Secondly... OpenOffice is sponsored by Sun. Why would they expect Sun not to leverage the resources it has?


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Wednesday, 11 May 2005 10:55 am

Because the FSF is a bunch of loonies. Besides, Harmony would be under Apache license, not FSF, so rms would still be flailing spastically anyway.

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