You do indeed have the right not to donate. I don;t think there is any attempt at coersion. It would be of practical use to know if from thid point on SQLite is more or less work the HSQLDB. With this information the decision becomes a little more rational and a little less emotional.
--- Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:28:17 +0200 To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: What about SQLite, was: Funding for remaining HSQLDB work Ralph Aichinger wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 10:04 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: > >>maybe is funding was asked in the first place, the community would have >>paid (or just paid more) for a certain solution (for example for the one >>considered to provide more freedom). > > > It is not clear if including SQLite is less effort than adapting > HSQLDB and porting Java stuff to a free Java VM like kaffe combined. i have not commented about the technical merits, only that if you ask money for someone then is normal to give him input on the solution choosed. developers have the right to chose a solution and i have the right to refuse to pay for something which i don't agree with. > Porting OOo to a free Java implementation would also get us > wizards, usable macros, xml filters etc. or gcj. for example Derby/Cloudscape and Eclipse can already be compiled with gcj. > And a solution like this would be not a bit less free, but have > many positive side effects (like improving free Java). -- nicu my OpenOffice.org pages: http://ooo.nicubunu.ro --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
