Hi :) Similarly DocX promises to be cross-platform and able to be used by any relevant program. So did Rtf. Whenever these things are in the hands of single profit-making companies they don't seem to live up to promises or expectations. Ownership through a committee of a large number of profit-making companies and others seems to make things more stable as long as it's possible to pull any errant company back in-line if it fails to implement it as per agreements. Regards from Tom :)
On 19 July 2014 12:50, Jim Seymour <jseym...@linxnet.com> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:16:49 +0100 > Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Oddly i still see a LOT of job adverts for programmers who can > > write Java. I'm hoping that is to help companies migrate away or to > > re-write existing java packages! > [snip] > > How sad :( > > Java had such great promise. Java was *supposed* to be immune to all > this. Instead, due to the realities of market pressures and the > scourge of poor design and coding, Java has become at least as bad a > word in the I.T. community as ActiveX -- possibly worse. > > Plus it's a PITA to code in, has horrible load times, and "write > once, run anywhere" never did become fully real. > > It was bad enough under Sun. Now that Oracle owns it, I think it's > doomed. > > Regards, > Jim > -- > Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam > filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is > rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my > web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
