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
     lesmikesell at gmail.com




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