[Fsf-friends] OpenOffice

[Ankit Malik]

quoting a comment @ osnews.com RE OO.o

" (IP: ---.ph.ph.cox.net) - Posted on 2005-03-05 22:23:51
"Fedora Core 4 is trying to make a free JRE based off of gcj and they
claim to have Openoffice.org compiling with gcj now too."

Is this true or did you just make this up? I'm not questioning you,
but it just sounds too good to be true.

I really wonder about the licensing issues regarding OO.o. Unless Red
Hat includes proprietary Java stuff into Fedora (which we know they
won't), OO.o will be crippled. This goes true most (not all) other
Linux distros, but not Sun's.
Wait a minute, it wouldn't apply to Solaris either.

Hmmm, using an open source killer app to leverage increasing market
share for your proprietary product, and locking out the competition. I
wonder if this is Sun's strategy.

I hope an open source, unencumbered implementation of Java is workable soon."


On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 14:01:52 +0530, Ankit Malik <ankitmalik@gmail.com> wrote:
> you mean RTFM [fine manual]! Uh ok! ;-)
> 
> 
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 13:51:33 +0530, Mahesh T. Pai <paivakil@sancharnet.in> wrote:
> > Ankit Malik said on Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:24:32AM +0530,:
> >
> >  > But isn't OO based on JAVA? And Java is not free by FSF standards.
> >  >
> >  > So what abt OO???
> >
> > Have you read the Debian policy manifesto?? If not, please do. It is
> > at http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ in particular,
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-sections
> >
> > Next, read http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/
> > and http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/x138.html
> >
> > Make sure you read the documents in *only* in this particular order.
> >
> > If that does not answer you, try going through that, read the mails at
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/
> >
> > The  list link  is  to the  mailing  list archives;  be careful  while
> > reading that, because opposing opinions will be expressed there.
> >
> > --
> >          Mahesh T. Pai    <<>>   http://paivakil.port5.com
> > REVOLUTION, n. An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
> >
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