OpenOffice 2.0 Criticized on Use of Java

karvind writes "Yahoo is running a story on how OpenOffice 2.0 Faces Opposition over Its Use of Java. According the article: "The problem, according to some free software voices, is that OO.o relies too much on Sun Microsystems Inc.'s proprietary Java programming language in an open-source project. In particular, free software advocates are objecting to the use of Sun specific Java code for such OO.o 2.0 features as the new, Microsoft Access-like database management program, Base and Writer's (OO.o's word processor) document wizards." Linus Torvalds also moved to an open-source solution for software configuration management system."

Comments

SHUT UP

[Jailbrekr]

Wah, it uses Java. Its portable and its available in source form. Would you rather they use .net?

Re:If you'll pardon my French

[AKAImBatman]

1. It's under a very restrictive license. The license isn't so restrictive by the standards of applications or operating systems, but by the standards of languages it's very strict.

Yeah. Whatever. I don't see IBM giving out their Smalltalk compiler for others to fork.

Java is just as open as any other language, with the exception that the OSS fanatics can't seem to hire sufficient expertise to replicate a high-quality JVM. That's not Sun's problem.

2. RTFA, the major problem is that they're using undocumented sun-only features, almost as if they're deliberately breaking it on Kaffe etc.

You show me where that's stated, and I'll show you a pack of lies.

Re:Si vous pardon mon Français

[gatkinso]

Shutup and surrender... oh wait: you already did.