Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 17:59:21 UTC 2008
Heitor Moraes wrote:
> What kind of kid you are?
> Buying a Company, does not mean you create their softwares!
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarDivision
>
> I used that a loot with (RedHat based) Conectiva Linux.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Francis Earl wrote:
>>> It's funny, because if you take away OpenOffice.org/OpenSolaris they're
>>> really done very little,
>>>
>> Take away OOo and no one would be using Linux on the desktop at all.
>>
>>> and no distros actually use Sun's OpenOffice,
>>> they use Novells (go-oo.org) because Sun stiffles development too much.
>> That wouldn't exist without Sun either, and without Sun stifling anything.
>
OK, exist was the wrong word, but it wouldn't exist in the fedora
distribution without Sun's contribution and it wouldn't exist on my
machines.
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Les Mikesell
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