Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

[Robert Mayr]

2013/1/31 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada at gmail.com>

> Hi Marina,
>
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:14:41 +0100
> Marina Latini wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I'm an Ambassador and this proposal is confusing me.
> > We have LibreOffice in our repositories; I think that bring back
> > Apache OpenOffice generates only confusion between users, not freedom
> > of choice.
> >
> The confusion is already there in Windows world, linux user should be
> more capable of treating it as freedom of choice instead of confusion.
> Also, since Apache took over OpenOffice.org and put it out of
> incubation, it seems the development has been progressing rather well
> and in a different direction than LibreOffice. While both started from
> the same point, they're going to be different office suites with
> different feature sets, different UIs, different devs, etc.
>
> I think it's beneficial to provide Fedora users with the choice of
> installing either, or even both, provided there's enough interest
> among the devs to make it so. From a user point of view, I think the
> main manpower for F19 should go into getting it into repos and solving
> *all* conflicts. They should be parallel installable and should not
> conflict even at runtime with each other. Especially the runtime
> conflicts would be really confusing to (some of) our users.
>
> With regards,
> Martin
>
>  I think that's not the point, one of the two suites will be dominant and
you can't provide both of them on a live image for example.
LibreOffice was introduced to our live images and we hit target 1GB, do you
really think it could be useful having a larger image just because you want
to provide both of the office suites?
I think Fedora did the right decision moving towards LibreOffice, we should
maintain that. Never change a winning team :)
Regards

-- 
Robert Mayr
(robyduck)
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