2013/2/4 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> > Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > = Features/ApacheOpenOffice = > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice > > > > Feature owner(s): Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> > > > > Add Apache OpenOffice, the free productivity suite, to Fedora. > > A big -1 to this feature, and in fact I'd urge FESCo to veto that package > outright (or if it somehow already made it into Fedora, to get it blocked > in > Koji and Obsoleted by libreoffice ASAP). > > Rationale: > * What benefit does this package have over LibreOffice, to justify carrying > 2 packages doing essentially the same thing? > * OpenOffice is a huge package and a big strain on our build system (Koji); > IMHO, having 2 versions of it would be a gigantic waste of resources. > * LibreOffice is clearly the community version to be preferred: > - All major distros support it. > - Red Hat people work on it. > - AFAIK, it has more features. > whereas Apache OpenOffice is the fork Oracle created to remove control > over the project from the community, after Oracle had refused for months > to cooperate with the community (and for those months, LibreOffice had > been the only version being developed at all). (I consider it a big > mistake on the part of Apache to have accepted that trojan horse > "donation". They should have pointed Oracle to the existing LibreOffice > project instead. I really don't see why OpenOffice.org had to be donated > to Apache when basically all the existing non-Oracle developers were > involved in LibreOffice instead and when all that was needed was > assigning > the OpenOffice trademark to them.) > > PS: I wonder if there's any connection between this feature and the MariaDB > feature (or rather, Oracle's negative response to it). > > Kevin Kofler > > I completely agree!
-- Robert Mayr (robyduck)
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