openoffice is dead?

Gary Layng glayng-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Sat Mar 5 23:25:06 UTC 2011


On March 5, 2011 06:07:24 pm William Park wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:43:15PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > A great deal of it dates back to the Sun days; Sun wasn't as
> > cooperative as people would have liked, so a lot of contributions of
> > code went by the wayside.  It looks like this effect will be more
> > dramatic with Oracle.
>
> Sun did openoffice just to embed their Java into it.  Honestly, I don't
> know why people are using OpenOffice.  For God's sake, get the real
> thing, and support Microsoft Inc.
... the convicted monopolists.

No thanks.
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