On 31 January 2013 13:28, Martin Sourada <martin.sourada@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The confusion is already there in Windows world, linux user should be > more capable of treating it as freedom of choice instead of confusion. > Also, since Apache took over OpenOffice.org and put it out of > incubation, it seems the development has been progressing rather well > and in a different direction than LibreOffice. While both started from > the same point, they're going to be different office suites with > different feature sets, different UIs, different devs, etc. > Maybe a power user is able to understand the main differences between LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice but, what about newbie users? > I think it's beneficial to provide Fedora users with the choice of > installing either, or even both, provided there's enough interest > among the devs to make it so. From a user point of view, I think the > main manpower for F19 should go into getting it into repos and solving > *all* conflicts. They should be parallel installable and should not > conflict even at runtime with each other. Especially the runtime > conflicts would be really confusing to (some of) our users. We adopted LibreOffice as the other GNU/Linux distributions and now we want reintroduce Apache OpenOffice. This corresponds to admit we made a wrong choice! this way of act is a lack of coherence. As Ambassador I can't see benefits for Fedora but only problems for our users. this proposal is only a point of failure. my 2 cents, regards, Marina > > With regards, > Martin > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Marina Latini Fedora Ambassador: Deneb -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
