I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

[James McKenzie]

On 11/3/10 10:31 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Now, having said that, I didn´t like the hysteria surrounding
> OpenOffice.org, and I think Oracle will do an OK job advancing the
> open source project going forward.
>
The 'hysteria' surrounding 'OpenOffice.org' is not what you state it 
is.  Oracle bought Sun, Oracle does not subscribe to the 'OpenSource is 
better' mantra that Sun did.  Thus, OpenOffice.org, minus the patented 
code was released as LibreOffice.  RedHat and other distributions 
realize that OpenOffice.org will soon become 'pay as you go' software 
under the StarOffice label and have decided to embrace LibreOffice.
> I also don´t trust Novell a single bit, and I think sooner rather than
> later, they´ll end up polluting "LibreOffice" with Mono. I don´t want
> that.
>
Too bad.  The had the best directory service that I've worked with just 
because of that:  It worked and was universal rather than the 'Active 
Directory' crap that Microsoft foists on the unsuspecting.
> So, here I am, a happy Fedora user, but who´d like to continue using
> OpenOffice.org. What chance is there (if any) of an end user like me
> of influencing Fedora direction to keep supporting OpenOffice.org ?.
> Who makes those kind of decisions? Has Fedora or RedHat made any
> statement wrt OO.o going forward?.
>
You can always add OO.o to your system.  However, RedHat and others will 
not be including it in their packages for a number of reasons, most of 
them legal.

Also, in the spirit of FOSS, this is a 'good thing'.  OpenOffice.org was 
a Sun thing.  It is NOT an 'Oracle' thing.

James McKenzie