Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck
linuxmaillists at charter.net
linuxmaillists at charter.net
Tue Apr 10 03:36:49 UTC 2007
On Monday 09 April 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> > On Monday 09 April 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> >>> On Monday 09 April 2007, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:46:25PM -0400,
> >>>
> >>> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> >>>>> No it has something to do with the function not
> >>>>> being open source or something like that. It was on
> >>>>> another mailing
> >>>>
> >>>> That's not "stripped", that's "can't legally
> >>>> include".
> >>>
> >>> It is stripped because it was there from the source.
> >>> Can't legally include is just their opinion.
> >>
> >> Please point me to the source on the OpenOffice
> >> website. I can't seem to find it.
> >>
> >>> The cool thing is I can override their opinion and
> >>> put it back the way the developers provided it for
> >>> all to use as we decide too.
> >
> > The OpenOffice.org package on the web site will do
> > things that can't be done in the Fedora version. Even
> > as early as the 1.0.3 version (I have a copy on Knoppix
> > 3.3 live CD) from the OOo site had this function in it.
>
> You didn't answer the question. What you are saying is
> not in dispute.
I have not been talking about this from a legal view point
only from a user view point. There is functionality in the
original OOo package from the OOo website that is missing
in the Fedora version. I also have described the missing
functionality that I know about twice in this thread.
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