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20050513 Freitag Mai 13, 2005

"OpenOffice, Free-Software Supporters Make Peace over Java"
"As Scott Carr, documentation manager for OpenOffice.org, wrote online on Wednesday, "The major difference here is that OOo is actively talking with RMS [Richard M. Stallman, founder of the FSF] to make sure everyone is happy. OOo is run by a community. Sun is providing developers to this community, but Sun does NOT run things," Carr said.

"OpenOffice.org has a policy [which Sun endorses and has since it was framed] that OpenOffice.org will use Java in a runtime-neutral way so as to ensure it is always available 'Free' as well as 'free,'" a Sun representative said."

The full article can be found here.
( Mai 13 2005, 07:23:00 AM CEST ) Permalink


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