Hi Rene and others, I truly concur. I find it increasingly worrying that Sun to some extent considers Java to be okay for a Free office-suite. I also spot the commercial interest that Sun might have, and I think that this makes OOo less optimal for the Free Software community -- including Debian, whose packaging policy demands the software to be Free. I feel, that OOo should not compromise on their being Free, no matter what their sponsors are. Sun, on the other hand, should release their JVM to the public under Free Software-acceptable terms. Under a GPL-compatible license, that is.
Why not become a member of the Free Software world, instead of just embracing it? It worked for Netscape, wo why not Sun? I wouldn't want this to be an official statement -- just an opinion from one of the users. Regards, Anders Breindahl. P. S.: Bruce, would you post a link to me, when you're done with your article? On Saturday 05 March 2005 12:39, Rene Engelhard wrote: > That's what we want to do in future when it is possible; gcj-4.0 > (in experimental currently) can build many parts of OpenOffice.org after > some patches for gcj support were made. (No idea about interpreting with > gij, though) > > However, that would mean we'll get a dependency on the experimental > libgcc1 so the package won't be installable (and not buildable anywayn > since we need gcj-4.0) in plain unstable. > > Not fine. Well... For a upload to experimental we probably could try but > it's really suboptimal. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
