Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-13 Thread Mathias Bauer
Shawn McDermott wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: Shawn McDermott wrote: [snip] I have installed gcj and I am playing around with it. so far 1.9.100 does not run 'out of the box' with gcj. That means that there is still something to do. :-) But gcj is not the only way. There are other

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-12 Thread Shawn McDermott
Mathias Bauer wrote: Shawn McDermott wrote: [snip] I have installed gcj and I am playing around with it. so far 1.9.100 does not run 'out of the box' with gcj. That means that there is still something to do. :-) But gcj is not the only way. There are other projects we could try, and the

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-11 Thread Daniel Carrera
Sophie Gautier wrote: As I havn't seen this link pointed yet here, may be you'll be interested in this initiative called Apache Harmony http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200505.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's a bit more:

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-11 Thread Shawn McDermott
Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: Hi, I thought people might be interested in this link. It seems the RMS wants to fork OpenOffice.org due to its reliance on JDK. Thoughts, Kevin Begin forwarded message: Resent-From: debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org From: Bruce Byfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 8,

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-10 Thread Mathias Bauer
Daniel Carrera wrote: Someone just informed me off-list that this email could be taken the wrong way. I'd like to clarify that what I mean to say is let's not dwell on this. Personally, I don't think that a fork would be successful, but what I was trying to say is that we shouldn't make

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
vy.ho wrote: Should they fork JBoss because it runs on none-free Java too? If they want to spend their time forking JBoss, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. Let them be. If they want a none-free Java, create one, not OOo. And don't steal Sun's property. Create one, not asking Sun to

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-09 Thread vy.ho
Daniel Carrera wrote: If they want to spend their time forking JBoss, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. Let them be. JBoss is just an example of their argument. Forking is fine with me too on open source stuff. However, the reason behind it (because it runs on Java) does not sound

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
vy.ho wrote: JBoss is just an example of their argument. Forking is fine with me too on open source stuff. However, the reason behind it (because it runs on Java) does not sound right to me. It doesn't sound right to me either. I think that energy would be better spent on one of the free Java

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-09 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, vy.ho wrote: Daniel Carrera wrote: If they want to spend their time forking JBoss, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. Let them be. JBoss is just an example of their argument. Forking is fine with me too on open source stuff.

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-09 Thread Vy Ho
Rene Engelhard wrote: This is another case. JBoss is a Java app. It would be better to make it work with free JDKs (does it?, no idea) but it's still a Java servlet so it's obvious it needs Java. Whereas OpenOffice.org is a Office productivity suite which has some important functionality written