It is not that people are anti-java on a technical level, but on a political level. It doesn't matter how many times Sun says that Java is "Open", it is a proprietary piece of software and has no place in the Free Software world.
You won't be disallowed to code a piece of OpenOffice.org in Java (critical or not), but adherents of the Free Software philosophy will not use it. It is a matter of preserving Freedom (the way we think is right).
You have the Freedom to code it, we have the Freedom to reject use on the principals we have about software usage conditions.
Learn about Linux
Download Linux
Get Linux help
Re:Time to fork I guess
Posted by: Ronald Trip on March 29, 2005 02:34 AMIt is not that people are anti-java on a technical level, but on a political level. It doesn't matter how many times Sun says that Java is "Open", it is a proprietary piece of software and has no place in the Free Software world.
You won't be disallowed to code a piece of OpenOffice.org in Java (critical or not), but adherents of the Free Software philosophy will not use it. It is a matter of preserving Freedom (the way we think is right).
You have the Freedom to code it, we have the Freedom to reject use on the principals we have about software usage conditions.
#