X11 and OO?

[Joshua Zeidner]

On 11/13/06, Kurt Granroth <plug-discuss at granroth.org> wrote:
>
> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> >  Open Office is Java based.  I use it regularly on Windows.  What makes
> > you say that OO only runs on X11?
>
> For the record, Open Office is *not* Java based and it never was.  It is
> written in C++ and has been since the StarOffice days.  It has an
> optional ability to integrate with Java for something or other.
> Plugins, I think.  I never remember.  In any event, the key word there
> is "optional".  You don't need Java at all to run Open Office.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org#Java_controversy


That's an *extremely* common misconception, though.  It was "common
> knowledge" even back in the StarOffice days, years ago.  I never knew
> were that came from.  Maybe because StarOffice/OpenOffice is so bloated
> and slow and because it can use Java, people assumed it was written with
> Java?
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