Hi! Some answers, now from my private account, to be clear:
1. Sun has spokesmen/spokeswomen OOo has been founded by Sun and it should not wonder nobody here that Sun employees have their own opinion if they're working on an open sourced (open minds) project. It is their daily job and sometimes they have answers on questions or also questions and need answers... 2. Sun and the Mac port and doing fixes AFAIK (and I do not know anything) the first steps of using Java instead of X11 als have been done by Sun in the past. The NeoOffice guys have done after the initial start a great job and I also support the team by doing automated QA if there is a request. Sometimes I have a look at their milestones and it is really a nice application on the Mac. Sun has decided not to do a Mac port, so why should they fix issues or invest in using Cococa/Java/... they have no interest in? Sorry, but nobody and no company would do that! Sun is supporting and sponsoring OOo - with no view on which platform it is being done. It is IMHO good for the Mac OS X port community that also inside Sun some employees have interest in having a Mac OS X port - they do their job in private time but they have the knowledge of their daily work.. 3. X11 and Java It is NOT Sun's job to beat a market where they're not present. StarOffice is not available on the Mac, so if somebody wants to beat the market it is the OOo community and not Sun because they have a Mac OS X port. It is a market with many small apps: M$ Office, iWork, Papyrus, AbiWord (supporting OASIS OpenDocument format!), .... have fun and I would happy to help. Have fun, Jogi -- Joerg Sievers 22926 Ahrensburg NEXTSTEP, OS/2, Mac OS X, Solaris - no Win32 in my history! http://www.warpsite.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
