On 11/13/06, Kurt Granroth <
plug-discuss@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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