OpenOffice and Java downloads are such a pain!

[Kirk Strauser]

On Saturday 19 June 2004 07:32 pm, Bruce wrote:

> I can't believe how much of a pain installing Open-Office 2.0 from the
> ports collection is. The port fails and tells me I need to download a
> file from Sun because of licensing restrictions...

Be sure you're distinguishing between OOo and Java.  The former isn't the 
cause.

> so I download the file it tells me too. Then start the compiling over
> again. Once again, I need a different file. This is driving me crazy. 

Now you know why noone regards Java as free software.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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