On 2010-02-12 9:51 AM, Web Kracked wrote: > Well, as some people have already questioned on why OOo is using MS's > stuff.
They only use it (2005 runtime) on windows systems. Something obviously did change if it now *requires* it, because I know it didn't use to, although I wouldn't have run into this because both the 2005 and 2008 runtimes are part of my standard windows installs for all of our workstations. Regardless, I for one can tell you that if this has anything to do with the massive performance improvements, then I say kudos to them and what took you so long! > I just agree that we much keep every aspect of OOo as free as possible. No problem with that - but requiring a tiny, ubiquitous and *free* runtime library doesn't make it less free. > One Day, MS might decide that people will have to pay for the use of their > free runtime libraries. That will be no good for us. Such a comment just displays massive ignorance. If MS were to *attempt* to change this from a non-free license, it would die a horrible death. -- Best regards, Charles --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
