Thought this was interesting, especially for the **shoppies**
-----Forwarded Message----- > From: Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [discuss] Mandrake users angry due to StarOffice policy change > Date: 24 Mar 2002 17:40:15 +0000 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > http://www.ooodocs.org/article.php?sid=25 > > This story has been blown out of all proportion by ZDNet. I think it would be best > if you correct your version of the story if you are interested in accurate news. I > am an (honuurary member) of Mandrakeclub, thus also do not have access to SO6. I > have seen only about 3 posts anywhere on any of Mandrake's websites, most users are > bit disappointed about not being informed of the policy earlier. No one was angry > (especially considering that club membership is aimed at supporting the distro, > benefits are secondary, and StarOffice licensing probably runs to an amount > approaching a full year of standard membership). > > >My only question is, why not include OOo then? > > More FUD. Mandrake 8.2 probably has the best packaging of OO.o available. RPMs of > 641c work out the box, supporting English, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian and > Portugese (although I have only tried English ;-)). Users do not have to bother with > running setup themselves (there is a wrapper script which checks whether this has > been done, and if not, installation is run in the background with a response file). > All Mandrake-installed TTF fonts (with the exception of some asian fonts that crash > OO.o) are available. The following RPMs for myspell are provided: > > [root@bgmilne bgmilne]# urpmq myspell > The following packages contain myspell: myspell-pt myspell-de myspell-es myspell-it > myspell-fr myspell-en myspell-nl > > These are all installed and work seemlessly, being autodetected from locale settings > at first run. > > > Please, next time check the facts (especially when you link to a story by someone > like ZDNet, who are known not too report too accurately) before publishing something > like this. When a distribution goes out of it's way to support a project (by > supplying binaries to more users than OO.o would reach on it's own), it's only fair > to give them the benefit of the doubt. > > A quick search at rpmfind.net > (http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=openoffice) would have shown you > that OO.o is indeed provided in Mandrake 8.2 > > Regards, > Buchan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
