Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 12:37 -0400, Chad Smith a écrit :

> Will this break down the barriers of the ultra-fantanic fringe "free
> software" zealots now?  

The ultra-fantanic fringe "free software" zealots have toiled for years
to make java on linux work in spite of all the hindrances (licensing,
etc) Sun imposed on them. (I personally invested several years of my
work in this work)

gcj+classpath only exists today because of Sun efforts not to have
java-on-linux work. Now it's reaching production level nobody will have
a change of faith and grovel before Sun (whoever drafted the new license
managed to put quite a lot of excessive terms in it)

Now Chad, I don't know how much efforts you've invested in OO.o in the
past years, but if MS corrected today one of the small things that make
you look at OO.o in the first place, would you declare Office was the
best thing since sliced bread ?

So in short that's too little, too late

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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