Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Apr 10 03:28:35 UTC 2007


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.

Please point me to the *source* on the OpenOffice website (preferably in
srpm format, but tar.gz will be fine) to download.


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