Semi-OT: Database for "average" users

[Christopher Browne]

On 5/1/05, David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Christopher Browne wrote:
> 
> >On 4/30/05, David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> >>openoffice.org will sport an access-like database. I think they are
> >>calling it "data",or something equally clever. You can try it today,
> >>it's in the beta.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >It is unobvious whether this will be particularly usable in general.
> >
> >
> Has anybody played with it ? I just upgraded to the OO.o2 beta this
> afternoon, and have toyed with "base" for maybe 10 minutes. Although I
> know didly about DBs, it seems pretty spanky and usable.
> 
> >I don't see any JDK available for Debian other than in the non-free
> >section, and I haven't seen much indication of alternatives to Sun's
> >implementation being  widely usable for general purposes.
> >
> I understand your argument re: non-free, but Suns JRE has been quite
> good to me.

How do you get a copy included on an installation CD?

For it to be treated as "infrastructure," you have to be able to
include it on a Debian CD, a Fedora CD, a SuSE CD.

As far as I can tell, that can't be done without violating licensing
agreeements.

I have a problem with the notion of making otherwise free software
decidedly unfree by virtue of such requirements.
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