Do we really need LibreOffice installed by default?

[drago01]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Evandro Giovanini <efgiovanini at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> A few things worth considering:
>>
>> - Java is quite popular among the Workstation target audience (between web
>> and mobile development), so installing it by default may not be such a bad
>> idea.
>>
>> - Without Libreoffice there's no support for .doc or even RTF documents in
>> the default install. This is something all operating systems currently
>> support (Windows, OS X and all major Linux distributions). While I'm in
>> favor of offering a lean selection of apps now that Software is a great and
>> usable tool, I believe that an OS should support viewing all common MIME
>> types out of the box.
>>
>> --
>> Evandr
>>
>
>
> Having a Java runtime environment doesn't help you with mobile development,
> you'd have to install Eclipse as well - and that pull in Java anyway. I also
> don't think a technology being "popular" is a good reason to include it by
> default, otherwise we'd include ruby on rails, django, docker, and PHP by
> default.
>
> AFAIK, Microsoft Windows does not come with a .doc viewer by default.

It does. Its called "WordPad".