Re: [Fsf-friends] OpenOffice

"Mahesh T. Pai" paivakil@sancharnet.in writes:

There are plenty implementations of Free (as in freedom JREs. So, why worry?

Java is not standardized. Hence these JREs are not fully compatible with the JRE provided by SUN. Hence, there are always surprises on these JREs. The distro builders are trying to fix this with `gij`., however that requires massive effort. And with a lot of open-standard scripting languages available (Scheme, Python, Ruby, ...) Sun's pushing of Java simply shows that it is intentional.

Though, I'm not personally in favour of project-forks., I think this is high time someone decided to fork the project. May be continue with the trees maintained by Debian/RedHat which is OO.o stripped off its Java features.