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Sun Denies StarOffice on Mac OS X
mattworld1 writes, "MacCentral is reporting that while development of OpenOffice for Mac OS X will continue, Sun is denying that a version of StarOffice is in the works. This is unfortunate, as it would be nice for Mac OS X users to have a good alternative to the expensive Microsoft Office." Apparently it's not all bad news, as VValdo writes, "The recent announcement of a collaboration from Apple/Sun on a Java-based version of StarOffice for Mac OS X shocked and angered many of the OpenOffice developers who had been left totally in the dark. After two days of intense programming on a proof of concept, they announced a first look at Open Office in Aqua." Neat!
For more information, check out the NewFactor article at : http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18805.html
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Also check out this GeekNews story: http://geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Jul/gee20020731
(Don't need the Karma, I just want people to get the facts straight. I hate misinformation being spread around...)
Who said Freedom was Fair?
They had their minds made up from the beginning. C|net, on the other hand, didn't.
I ran the unix version of jbuilder on a Mac before the Mac release. It is 100% pure java.
I believe the original poster stated that the Sun and Apple programmers that worked on it were volunteering time (not getting paid).
I don't know who works for who on the dayjob side but it wouldn't particularly surprise me if employees from Apple and Sun were contributing.
If you look at The about page It's clear there is participation from at least Sun employees.
I think it's cool. I like OpenOffice. If people are looking for an alternative to MS Office, that's one of your better bets.
-- The unsig...
Any effort to create an office suite today would have a tremendous chance of success, although it would still be a challenge.
http://www.iceni.org/~peterlin/first_aqua.html
Well this post would be accurate for JBuilder 3.5. I believe earlier versions were in C++.
However, since JBuilder 4, it is 100% Java (they are now on JB7). Perhaps you haven't used JBuilder since 2000, which of course gets you a +1 Informative on slashdot.
I forget...are we at war with Eurasia or East Asia?
From Filemaker's website.
It's a little hard to get pissed off at your parent company.
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The internet is the greatest source of biased information in the history of mankind.
There is no technical reason why OSX couldn't support, in addition to Carbon and Cococa, access to the graphics system through the X11 protocol. The amount of code required on Apple's side would be small (a few hundred kbytes of binary), and users would not be able to tell whether an application talks to Quartz through Carbon or the X11 protocol.
Of course, efforts like OpenOffice would still have to work on implementing Apple GUI guidelines, but they would have to do that even if they use native widgets.
Many of Apple's new users picked the Mac because it is UNIX; Apple should support graphical UNIX applications fully and out of the box rather than insisting that other people spend large amounts of time unnecessarily on ports.
Yes, we will be working on retooling it to conform to Aqua. That's a major undertaking for us, though, and we'll need lots of help to design how we'll do it as well as execute it. It's easy to draw buttons in two days...to get it to be sheets, tabbed dialogs, drawers, etc. isn't :)