On Ven 29 avril 2005 1:47, Christian Einfeldt a écrit : > On Thursday 28 April 2005 07:28, M. Fioretti wrote: >> Interview by C. Einfeldt to Sun Microsystems evangelist Simon >> Phipps: > > Thanks for noticing this article, Marco! I included a link to the > article about Java in OOo by Bruce Byfield, because I thought that > his analysis was superb, even though I disagreed with his > conclusion. There is also a link in the article back to Marco > Fioretti's 2005/3/28 thread about Bruce's article on Java in OOo.
I doubt this interview will help at all. It basically says "I don't see there is a problem, so there is no problem. Aren't it wonderful there is no problem?". The java community part is especially bad - sure java community is big but it's not one that trusts Sun overmuch (getting java problems Sun is not interested in fixed is almost impossible - everyone and its mother is doing private forks of java libraries to work around the fact getting fixes upstream is _hard_ and the licensing makes it difficult to share fixes among java users). People are grateful but far from enthousiastic. One of the main reasons Eclipse took up and Netbeans didn't is _most_ java players want _less_ Sun control, not more. It's not the happy campers community portrayed in the interview. Moreover a large part of the current OO.o userbase is not part of the java community because of the way Sun chose to manage it. Applying java management methods to OO.o (which is what will happen if OO.o starts depending on java) will only alienate these users - they've already looked at the java model and rejected it. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
