OpenOffice 2.0 and Java
Jeff Waugh
jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com
Tue Mar 29 17:09:15 CST 2005
<quote who="Mark Shuttleworth">
> I wonder if we shouldn't put together an open letter to the OpenOffice.org
> team, asking them to work a Free java option into their build process so
> that they at least preserve the ability of people to use upstream OO.o
> without putting non-free software on their systems.
Note that the interesting community development of OOo doesn't involve Sun
at all - Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Novell and others all use the rapid
development and release tree at ooo.ximian.com, and they're all interested
in a Free solution to the Java problem Sun has inflicted upon us.
- Jeff
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