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Re: deb for netbeans



cbbrowne@acm.org writes:

> I thought that the build process of OpenOffice depended on [I'm being
> vague here :-(] "some bundle of Java2 stuff," which would have the
> result that despite OpenOffice itself being "free software," since a
> build requires distinctly nonfree stuff, it can't go in "free."

IIRC that was one of the bigger problems in getting OO packaged -- I'm
under the impression that that's fixed now. But
<debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org> can surely provide an
authoritative answer, so I've CCd them.

> It's almost enough to make you want to throw up your hands and say, "why
> bother trying?"

... we have joy, we have fun ... and then we have Sun.

-- 
Robbe

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