[discuss] Surprised this hasn't been on here already but.... SUN HAS OPEN SOURCED JAVA

2006-05-17 Thread Chad Smith
Sun Will Open-Source Java, Embrace Linux on Sparc Sun Microsystems Inc. http://www.sun.com/ will make its Java softwarehttp://www.java.com/available on an open-source basis and embrace Linux broadly on its Sparc-based computers, the company said

Re: [discuss] Surprised this hasn't been on here already but.... SUN HAS OPEN SOURCED JAVA

2006-05-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 12:37 -0400, Chad Smith a écrit : Will this break down the barriers of the ultra-fantanic fringe free software zealots now? The ultra-fantanic fringe free software zealots have toiled for years to make java on linux work in spite of all the hindrances (licensing,

Re: [discuss] Surprised this hasn't been on here already but.... SUN HAS OPEN SOURCED JAVA

2006-05-17 Thread Daniel Carrera
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Now Chad, I don't know how much efforts you've invested in OO.o in the past years, but if MS corrected today one of the small things that make you look at OO.o in the first place, would you declare Office was the best thing since sliced bread ? Knowing Chad, he probably

Re: [discuss] Surprised this hasn't been on here already but.... SUN HAS OPEN SOURCED JAVA

2006-05-17 Thread Chad Smith
On 5/17/06, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 12:37 -0400, Chad Smith a écrit : Will this break down the barriers of the ultra-fantanic fringe free software zealots now? The ultra-fantanic fringe free software zealots have toiled for years to make java on

Re: [discuss] Surprised this hasn't been on here already but.... SUN HAS OPEN SOURCED JAVA

2006-05-17 Thread Chad Smith
On 5/17/06, Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Now Chad, I don't know how much efforts you've invested in OO.o in the past years, but if MS corrected today one of the small things that make you look at OO.o in the first place, would you declare Office was the

RE: [discuss] Improving Impress

2006-05-17 Thread Andrew Robertson
Here is a question related to this: there are many sites online that offer templates and clipart for OpenOffice.org. Rather than including clipart and template and such that bloat the installer file size, why not create a place at the www.openoffice.org website that contains these, that users can

Re: [discuss] Surprised this hasn't been on here already but.... SUN HAS OPEN SOURCED JAVA

2006-05-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 15:14 -0400, Chad Smith a écrit : On 5/17/06, Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Now Chad, I don't know how much efforts you've invested in OO.o in the past years, but if MS corrected today one of the small things that make you

Re: [discuss] Surprised this hasn't been on here already but.... SUN HAS relaxed a little bit more its JAVA licensing

2006-05-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 15:11 -0400, Chad Smith a écrit : Now, Sun has finally bent over backwards and put it under a free enough licence, and you're still not happy? More exactly - I don't care. The time for somewhat free was years ago before a fully free bunch of code had been

Re: [discuss] Surprised this hasn't been on here already but.... SUN HAS OPEN SOURCED JAVA

2006-05-17 Thread Chad Smith
On 5/17/06, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would take 2 things for me to say that. Not just one. And they are 2 big things - not small. Well Sun hasn't done its two big things for Java. Now that I think about it - it would be 3. 1) Make MS Office cost-free, as in $0

[discuss] just want to write a letter?

2006-05-17 Thread Brian Faux
Dear OpenOffice, Like (i suspect) many Word/OOWriter users my main use of the program is to write letters. To do this requires setting up a template, generally with first page Header and Footer and subsequent pages maybe just numbered. This I`m sure is well within the capabilities of OOWriter, as

Re: [discuss] just want to write a letter?

2006-05-17 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, 17 May 2006 12:56:05 -0500, Brian Faux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear OpenOffice, Like (i suspect) many Word/OOWriter users my main use of the program is to write letters. To do this requires setting up a template, generally with first page Header and Footer and subsequent pages