Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[Andy Green]

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 

Patent threat from MSFT... see this FUD article from 2004:

''OpenOffice: A legal Trojan horse--but for whom?''

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513-5375070.html

Don't blame Redhat for this, they are doing what they have to do.  As 
you point out it's not so hard if you want to install the stock version 
on top of the vast amount of other packages and security updates Redhat 
are giving us for free.

-Andy