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OpenOffice.org 3.1 released

OpenOffice.org 3.1 released

Posted May 8, 2009 17:57 UTC (Fri) by khc (subscriber, #45209)
In reply to: OpenOffice.org 3.1 released by jordanb
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 3.1 released

I don't know how this misconception started, but openoffice is _not_ written in Java, except for some optional components.


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OpenOffice.org 3.1 released

Posted May 13, 2009 13:46 UTC (Wed) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link]

Most likely it came from the two factors of "Sun has been near the source" and "why the feck does the build require tcsh and java to even function?".

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