Non FOSS and Fedora

[Colin Charles]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 20:46, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:

> You should always look suspiciously towards anyone advising you to
> install something is bad for you, and generally evil (for instance, with
> Sun's JDK you are not allowed to give a copy to a friend of yours, that
> could revoke both your copy and his immediately since only Sun and
> authorized distributers can give access to its JDK).

>From the OpenOffice.org perspective, we will recommend the Sun's JRE.
Why? Because it works, and we've not found something else that works
just as well (at the moment).

So, giving someone instructions as to how to install the JRE for
instance (though not exactly non-free), is OK, imho.
-- 
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