On 2/3/07, Kirill Palagin (Y) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Secondly, by doing this as a project, generating our own non-Sun money, we >would actually be making ourselves more free. Many people won't contribute >to this project because of its tight relationship to Sun - Really? Wow! It is sad if so. Or you are talkng about direct Sun competitors (which is understandable)?
No. I'm talking about Free Software people who believe if it's anything less than the latest GPL it's as bad as "M$". Individual volunteers who have - on OpenOffice.org mailing lists - publicly denounced the project because of it's ties to Sun. Now, it is possible that they were merely shills for Sun competitors, or Microsoft, or just plain trolls - I don't know. But I have seen on other projects outright animosity towards OpenOffice.org because of this relationship, and/or the Java thing, and/or the LGPL. -- - Chad Smith http://www.chadwsmith.com/
