![]() ![]() I have a great deal of respect for the gnu guys. oo.o is following the oss mentality rather then the free mentality. for people who use free software for ethical rather then practical purposes (im dont, but i understand and respect those who do), they shouldnt have been looking to oo.o to be the “free” office suite of the future anyways. for the oo.o maintainers, this is a good thing. java allows for a far more rapid turnaround for new features.įor the end user, this is a good thing. oo.o is a gargantuan project with relatively few people working on it. mono still isnt up to speed with the sun jre (before a flamewar breaks out, its not up to speed with the microsoft implementation yet either). sun (for all intents and purposes) develops this code. the sun jdk is under a good free-as-in-beer liscence, and as soon as free implementations can catch up, this will be a non-issue.Īs for this “contraversy”, just put down the pitchforks and think for a second. First of all, hsqldb is under a bsdish liscence. ![]()
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