Re: [libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice

Hi :)
Thanks chaps :)  I am a bit lost.  Well, totally lost tbh.  

This Qt issue is a bit of a tangent really.  I was just trying to say that there are a lot of 
better alternatives that are far less likely to get the users machines compromised.  Writing stuff 
in Java forces people that want to use your programs to have java installed and active.  So, you 
would basically be forcing your customers/clients/colleagues to run vulnerable systems in order to 
run your code, if you code in java.  Hence lots of people are moving away from java.  Not just the 
entire LibreOffice project but also others.  

Of course a lot of companies are going to take a long time to steer away from Java and there will 
be a lot of resistance from people that prefer to help pepople get infected rather than use their 
current skills set to enable them to learn alternatives faster.  A lot of companies are going to 
have to start paying for Oracle's new "professional" or "enterprise" versions of Java if/when they 
create those.  Oracle can't keep providing java for free and so far they are right on-track for 
monetising it.  
Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Mirosław Zalewski <miniopl@poczta.onet.pl>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Monday, 4 February 2013, 9:32
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice
>
> On 04/02/2013 at 10:44, Mark Stanton <mark@vowleyfarm.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Qt
 isn't a programming language Tom, it's a UI framework (written in 
> > C++).
>
> It has been some time since Qt grown to be much more than simple UI framework. 
> Right now it's application framework providing abstraction layers for many 
> parts of operating system, as well as modules that ease development of modern 
> applications (using Unicode, SQL, XML, SVG etc.).
> -- 
> Best regards
> Mirosław Zalewski
>
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