Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[linuxmaillists at charter.net]

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.

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