BrOffice.org in Fedora 10

[drago01]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:37 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > And the only apparent difference I see is that the splash screen says
>> > it's "BrOffice" instead of "OpenOffice".
>> >
>> > What sort of value is this really providing to our userbase?
>>
>> Did you see the bug?
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=358021
>>
>> I don't think they wanted to rename it, but legal issues forced them to.
>
> With my IANAL hat on, I don't see how these packages do anything to
> solve the problem, though.
>
> User in Brazil takes Fedora DVD, does install with the office group,
> they get OpenOffice.  Even if comps also specifies to install broffice
> as well.  And so then, they have two things in their menus, etc.  As do
> all users who may not be in Brazil but care about having support for
> users who speak Brazilian Portuguese.

hmm.. use the timezone for that or ask for the country (not a hard
question and windows/os X afaik do it too)