![]() ![]() Itself not a bad thing (I paid for the packaged version of Mandrake 10), but it’s better to have the viable free version available. The other reason to avoid Java based OO is that requiring the Sun Java JRE makes it so the user is locked into using a distro that has paid Sun the redistribution license, and requiring that the user purchases a non-free commercial version of the distro (i.e. But Linux and other platforms give you better alternatives. OO remains a decent, free alternative to use on a Windows machine (if still a bloated hog), since it is free and MSOffice is just as bloated and even more buggy. Then throw in the necessity of having the JRE for many of it’s features, and OO becomes bloated beyond what a lot of hardware can run in a usable manner. There are sound technical and business lock-in reasons to not use Java based OO.įirst, OO is already a huge resource hog – unacceptably so on a Linux machine when you have the much faster, less buggy and more attractive alternatives in KOffice and Abiword/Gnumeric. the people complaining about this walk the walk, but dont talk the talk, or they would be using a project that aligns closer to their moral principals, even if it is nowhere near as good. they refuse to accept partial solutions, and stand their ethical ground with a consistancy that is extremely hard to find nowadays. 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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