Re: GUI toolkit for Ada again

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

I've got a question about this: It looks like this is set up by Sun to get a
product created (at little to no cost to them) that helps them compete with
Microsoft. The availability of OpenOffice creates a tangible benefit to
them - translation: $$$. How is it I benefit as a contributor? Or is this
just a thinly disguised attempt by Sun to get me to work for them for free?

I'm guessing at the moment, but is all this stuff written in C? C++? Java? I
quote from the web page:

"We have made these binary versions of OpenOffice.org available for testing
purposes only! We consider them pre-alpha code, and they are not stable or
complete enough for daily usage. They might crash on startup. They might
delete all your files and cause your computer to burst into flames. We put
them here for you to try out and report the bugs you find. It's guaranteed
that you'll find bugs, lots of them and we want to hear about 'em."

Very strong confidence building going on here, eh? :-)

MDC
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"McDoobie" <chris@dont.spam.me> wrote in message
news:KSO37.9609$JN6.1835931@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com...
>
> Have we considered investigating Open Office at www.openoffice.org for
> just such an endeavor? It's cross platform, Open Source, and handles
> Microsoft Office data formats.
> I've looked at it, and it certainly appears that it fits right in with the
> description you've given above. It also appears that good chunks of it
> could stand a good sound rewrite in Ada code. It's pretty jumbled right
now.
>