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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Tue Oct 26 18:55:53 
+0000 2010 -------
@chcd:

Agreed, concerning the problems and can of worms with reverting to an older Java
installation.

>and then OO.org, which didn't receive notifications
>until the end users notice the problems.

Maybe because they have slept and have been uninformed? And didn't seem to read
and follow neither the Developer Release Notes Apple has regulary enclosed with
its Java Previews in its free (!) ADC Download area since over a year nor the
since month public available statements of Mike Swingler, Java Runtime Engineer,
Apple Inc.?

The OOo team/Sun/Oracle may have known since month all about this and all about
this potential risk and potential trouble -- at least since February 2010 -- and
could have changed its Java detection code early enough to what Apple recommends
since over a year. Please read my comments and links to this bug, especially my
two links from Oct 24 23:38:50 to Apples java-dev Mailinglist entries from
February 2010:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2010/Feb/msg00132.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2010/Feb/msg00150.html

Curious, that NeoOffice is NOT in trouble caused by this recent Java update,
because the NeoOffice team has obviously changed and adapted its JRE detection
code early enough (many month or years ago). This is, what they say to this
whole mess:
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=60996#60996

I think, this issue, this mess, could have been totally avoidable. And it's not
Apple to blame on this in the first place but OpenOffice/Sun/Oracle. It's very
awkward and puts a bad light onto OpenOffice/Oracle (QA?), and it is grist to
the mills of forks like LibreOffice and NeoOffice and gives the user/Mac user
once more a reason to prefer or switch over to LibreOffice/NeoOffice. Or they
flee into the arms of Microsoft and use their MS Office.

Please, such kinds of issues like this should never happen again. Because this
particulary issue has been so foreseeable, avoidable and finally is so
dispensable. This issue should be a warning sign to improve QA and to better
hear and look what's going on on the platforms -- especially relating the Mac
platform (including better platform integration and adherence/impementation of
the platform-specific Human Interface Guidelines).

Where are the observable results of Oracle's promises to more foster Sun's
heritage with more developers and more money? Changing just icons ist not 
enough.

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