Re: [ossig] Rising Controversy in OpenOffice + Java Issue

[Ditesh <ditesh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mukhsein Johari wrote:

>There's a recent article on newsforge about this
>issue. It seems many are up in arms about OOo 2.0's
>dependence on java. One component, the Base
>(Access-like db) is totally dependent on java.
>  
>

Their issue, AFAIK, is not with the language per se but with the 
underlying platform's license. Now, you have FOSS alternatives which are 
admittedly not as feature complete as Sun's JRE. The issue is not 
language/platform related but licensing related. It's semi-valid, I 
think and it's good that people focus on things like this because it 
spurs/encourages development of FOSS equivalents.

Look at Eclipse. It was in the same position as OpenOffice until the 
RedHat hackers decided enough was enough and pushed the development of 
GCJ far enough so that Eclipse could run well (and might I add that 
RedHat's version is fast!).

I hope the outcome of this is that more effort is put into GCJ and FOSS 
equivalents of the JRE.

>I'm not too fond of java myself (for various reasons)
>but if I _had_ to use it, I would. I'd just prefer not
>to, though.   
>  
>

The thing is this - are they alternative platforms to Java for huge 
honking cross platform projects? I can think of Mono/.NET, which many 
would find evil-er and more abhorrent, and the Mozilla platform.

Other than that, you're stuck with what we have now.

Ditesh


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