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FSF, OpenOffice.org Team Reach Agreement on Java
Bruce Byfield points out his NewsForge (part of OSTG) article about something good coming out of the conflict over Java in OpenOffice.org. It begins "A dispute between the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and OpenOffice.org (OOo) over the increased use of Java in the upcoming version 2.0 release of OOo is over
-- at least for now. The two groups have found a short-term solution, and are working together on
ways to keep the dispute from happening again." The story provides a decent background on why it matters, and shows a surprisingly conciliatory attitude on both sides.
A big hippy grouphug fest. NOW GET BACK TO WORK!
Or you could just tell Dick S. that your code is OS, and if he doesn't like using Sun's tools, impliment his own JVM and libraries.
Little Ricky just wants everything done in GNU/C so he can die thinking every OSS project is GNU-.
Right now he can't even start to say that it is GNU-OOo, adn that pisses him off
So open office is java based?
I hate java. The only virus I (and my parents, friends, etc)have gotten in the past year has been through java and oddly enough through firefox.
If OO is java based I guess I'll never switch to linux, unless MS release office for it.
1. Install Windows.
2. Download the Java installer from www.java.com.
3. Run the Java installer.
4. Shove greased-up Yoda doll in ass (optional, but highly recommended).
5. Reboot.
\"The story provides a decent background on why it matters, and shows a surprisingly conciliatory attitude on both sides.\"
Subtitled: When Geeks Kiss and Make UP.
Keep your fucking big nose out of it, your breath smells and you beard has rotting food in it. Go take a bath.
This stuff happens because you shouldn't build open/free software off proprietary software. If you want to
use open software as a foundation or library for your proprietary software, that's fine...but you don't
develop open source code with a closed source language. It defeats the purpose of it being open. Linus
found out the hardway and I'm glad that Open Office will hopefully be having an easier time...
When are open-sourced based CPUs going to be available? Does anyone know of any available? I don't *feel* free with the current processor offerings available. Transmeta was the closest, since Linus worked for them way back when.
Would CmdrTaco and the /. crew please create a "Java fanboy" option in the moderator drop-down menu?
Main difference between the BSD license and the GPL license: one is from California and the other is from Massachusetts
Exclusive: Who Is 'PJ' Pamela Jones of Groklaw.Net?
Pamela Is A 61-Year-Old Jehovah's Witness Who Lives In A Shabby Genteel Garden Apartment In Hartsdale, New York
By: Maureen O'Gara
May 7, 2005 09:15 PM
A few weeks ago I went looking for the elusive harridan who supposedly writes the Groklaw blog about the SCO v IBM suit.
The now-famous opinion-shaping open source leader Pamela Jones, aka "PJ," doesn't give conventional face-to-face interviews. Never has, near as anyone knows. All communication is virtual. Only one person in the world has ever claimed to have met her - in the pressroom at LinuxWorld in Boston complete with a Pamela Jones badge - and described her as a fortyish reddish-blonde who giggled a lot.
[Photo: May 7, 2005 12:37 PM - 304 North Central Avenue, Hartsdale, New York. The last known address of Pamela Jones, as the superintendent of the building calls it, Ms. Pam Jones.]
Oh yeah? Wonder what cold crème she uses.
Pamela Jones is a 61-year-old Jehovah's Witness who lives in a shabby genteel garden apartment in desperate need of an interior decorator on a heavily trafficked commercial road at 304 North Central Avenue in Hartsdale, New York. Hartsdale is in Westchester and Westchester is IBM territory.
See, even though Groklaw treats cell phones like they were Kleenex and changes its unpublished numbers regularly, one number it left with a journalist led to this flat and - wouldn't you know it but - some calls from there had been placed to the courts in Utah and to the Canopy Group so obviously this just isn't any Pamela Jones.
Pamela has lived in apartment 1A for 10 years at least, according to the super, who says he's watched people move in, have children, and the children marry and move away.
Now, this isn't your usual anonymous New York apartment. It's practically a self-contained village where the super goes for the old ladies' groceries when there's snow on the ground and people know each other's business.
[Photo: May 7, 2005 12:41 PM - 304 North Central Avenue, Hartsdale, New York. The last known address of Pamela Jones.]
But the super didn't know much about Pamela except that she had a computer, worked at home (maybe sometimes) for a lawyer, was "paranoid" - his word - and "sensitive to smells."
He remembered how he was cleaning paintbrushes one day and she came running down the stairs screaming "Fire."
She was also missing and had been for weeks.
Nobody there knew where she was.
She had up and disappeared one day, and the super was worried about her. He said her son had dropped by and he didn't know where she was, and that some strange man that "nobody knew," as the super described him, had tried to get into her apartment while she was gone - the Medeco lock she had had installed on her door - something nobody else in the complex seemed to feel a need for - was more expensive than the door. But, as it happened, the super said, she had just sent in her rent in an envelope postmarked Connecticut.
Like an episode out of "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego," the trail led to 10 Bittersweet Trail in Norwalk, Connecticut, 24 miles away. Sure enough, parked in the driveway was Pamela's car, just as the super had described it, a dark gray '90s Japanese number with a bunch of Jehovah Witness pamphlets tossed on the backseat.
The woman at the house, Barbara Jones Sharnik, told a disjointed story. She didn't know Pamela, Pamela hated her, Pamela wasn't there, Pamela left her car there because it got bumped, Pamela left her car there because she left town, and so on.
Afterwards Barbara called the cops, and then the cops called the number we left with her and the cops said that she was Pamela's mother and that Pamela was on the run and had shacked up with her mother because she had gotten "threatening mail" weeks before and that she had just gotten spooked again because "people were getting hurt around [my] stories" and had lighted out for Canada.
I'd give Stallman a list of instructions for getting Intel to free the Pentium IP, but it cost too much for me to figure out and prepare for publication to charge less than he can afford to pay.
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make install -not war
I suspect you don't understand what exactly is "free" in this situation.
...and for heaven's sake don't use the Linux kernel because you're too cheap to come up with an OS of your own or buy a ready-made one for your dvd player then whine when people bitch at you.
I'm going by RMS's idea of "free", in that he believes that all information should be world-viewable, regardless of one's possible desire to not show everything to the world. It's Stallman that said "Down with security!" since he wants access to *everything*.
This tripe gets modded Insightful?
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
I agree. Stallman is a 'true believer' in the same vein as Ted Kaczynski, David Duke, and Pol Pot.