Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 4/9/07, linuxmaillists at charter.net <linuxmaillists at charter.net> wrote:
> On Monday 09 April 2007, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 4/9/07, linuxmaillists at charter.net
> <linuxmaillists at charter.net> wrote:
> > > On Monday 09 April 2007, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > > On 4/9/07, linuxmaillists at charter.net
> > >
> > > <linuxmaillists at charter.net> wrote:
> > > > > I just learned that Fedora stripped some
> > > > > functionality from OOo.  That really sucks because
> > > > > the functionality they stripped I needed on one of
> > > > > my projects. That caused the project to take much
> > > > > longer than it should have.
> > > >
> > > > What stuff is that?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Fedora Core 6 and proud
> > >
> > > The drag copy function that will auto-increment the
> > > data in the cell whether it is text or numbers.
> > >
> > > Type January or Monday or something like this
> > > b001c001v001 in the cell and then drag.  This doesn't
> > > work with the Fedora version.
> >
> > I tried it on Fedora Core 6, it almost worked, but wanted
> > and end value, and didn't accept Friday. Could it just
> > be, as the Fedora version is 2.0?
> >
> > --
> > Fedora Core 6 and proud
>
> No it has something to do with the function not being open
> source or something like that. It was on another mailing
> list. It was also there in OOo 1.1.2 on Knoppix 3.6 which I
> just tested from the Live CD.


Would be nice if you provide a link. I'm unsure as to what to google for.

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Fedora Core 6 and proud