Hi there, I started using Linux back in Â99 or thereabouts. After a few years and switching between several distros (including Caldera OpenLinux, SuSE, and Sun Java Desktop System R2) I learned a few things: 1. That I liked Gnome more than KDE 2. That I hated Novell and its collaboration with Microsoft, along with its endorsement and advocacy for "Mono" (a project always playing catch-up with MicrosoftÂs .Net platform and as a side effect stealing mindshare from Java). 3. That I prefer a company that doesnÂt work against Java developers. So, I ended up running Fedora. First a Fedora derivative (Blag) and then Fedora 11. Then 12, and then 13. So far so good. Now, having said that, I didnÂt like the hysteria surrounding OpenOffice.org, and I think Oracle will do an OK job advancing the open source project going forward. I also donÂt trust Novell a single bit, and I think sooner rather than later, theyÂll end up polluting "LibreOffice" with Mono. I donÂt want that. So, here I am, a happy Fedora user, but whoÂd like to continue using OpenOffice.org. What chance is there (if any) of an end user like me of influencing Fedora direction to keep supporting OpenOffice.org ?. Who makes those kind of decisions? Has Fedora or RedHat made any statement wrt OO.o going forward?. Thanks FC -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
