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eWeek: OpenOffice, Free-Software Supporters Make Peace over Java

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

“A conflict between free-software supporters and OpenOffice.org
over the use of Sun’s proprietary implementation of Java in the
forthcoming OpenOffice.org 2.0 is on its way to being resolved.

“OpenOffice.org is the most popular open-source desktop office
suite. Supported by Sun Microsystems Inc., which uses it as the
basis for its commercial StarOffice office suite, OpenOffice.org is
frequently packaged with Linux distributions…”

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