On Feb 19, 2006, at 18:56, Rod Engelsman wrote:
I think Chad has a very defensible position in this argument. Exactly
WHY does the project continue to beat this X11 horse for the Mac port?
That would be almost exactly like having a port of OOo for Windows
that is the Linux version tweaked to run under Cygwin. Or a Linux
version that is really a Windows program tweaked to run under Wine. It
makes no sense to me. Especially since the only point of debate
between the Neo and the OOo for Mac crowd seems to be the licensing.
Who cares? The only reason that OOo is LGPL instead of GPL is so that
Sun can use the code in StarOffice. If Sun has no ambitions to release
a Mac port of StarOffice then I fail to see what's driving the
conflict.
As it stands, neither side can keep up with the main development of
OOo Win-Lin. I don't use a Mac, so I don't really have a dog in this
fight but from my perspective it all looks pretty silly.
NeoOffice/J has two problems in keeping up. Few developers, as good as
they are, and that they have to wait for a version of OOo to be
released
or close to being finalized before they can really start doing much of
the conversion. This usually puts them at least a version behind OOo.
OOo only has the porting to Mac and X11 to worry about and so are
usually a bit ahead of NeoOffic/J in getting the current version of OOo
out.
For people who only use the Mac, NeoOffic/J is a great choice as it is
more Mac like and uses the Mac open and save dialogs and printing as
well
as the Mac's font sytem.
For those who use different operating systems, OOo 2.x is much more
similar to what they are used to on other platforms. OOo 2.x also can
use
the open document file format. OOo 2.x can read and write the odf
format while NeoOffice/J in its latest version can read the odf but not
write to it.
Both the OOo and NeoOffice/J teams have slightly different visions. The
marvelous thing is that they can both follow their visions and we all
benefit from their generous efforts. Thank you gentlemen and ladies.
Ross Bernheim
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