Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

[Robert Mayr]

2013/2/4 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>

> Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > = Features/ApacheOpenOffice =
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice
> >
> > Feature owner(s): Andrea Pescetti <pescetti at 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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