2010/11/3 Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx>
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
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I believe this is not very important, I mean, everyone knows all new
Linux distros will come with LibreOffice inside of them instead of OpenOffice
But no matter if distros remove that suite of their repositories you'll still be able
to download it from it's official webpage.
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