From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,53611649a57c674a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-16 14:11:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!psiuk-p2!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GUI toolkit for Ada again Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:07:50 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9ivhio$aia$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 995314072 10826 136.170.200.133 (16 Jul 2001 20:07:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Jul 2001 20:07:52 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10018 Date: 2001-07-16T20:07:52+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "McDoobie" 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. >