OpenOffice 2.0

[Brian Chase]

Perhaps not a popular observation, but has anyone noticed that the only 
people getting paid and continuing to get paid in this business do 
things like this, effectively locking you into their solution to one 
degree or another?

I'm not happy about it, but it certainly seems to be fact.



Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:

> Werner Punz wrote:
>
>> Why they chose hypersonic over others still is somewhat a miracle to 
>> me, does not really fit to the project itself. 
>
>
> So, my theory is that this is a key part of Sun's strategy. OpenOffice 
> is a very popular OSS project and is key to any Linux offering. Sun 
> will continue to promote it on Windows and we will all be singing its 
> praises as an important migration tool. We will all help to make Linux 
> and OpenOffice popular. At the same time Java will continue to creep 
> into OpenOffice so that eventually it just won't work without Java. 
> That will make life quite difficult for distros that emphasize 
> freedom, like Debian, Ubuntu and Mandrake because the OSS 
> implementations of Java are clearly inferior.
>
> Fortunately for the business world and the home user, Sun will be 
> there with it's Java Desktop System (or Solaris) which obviously comes 
> with Java pre-installed.
>
> .henrik
>