Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 4/9/07, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> > On Monday 09 April 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> >>> On Monday 09 April 2007, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:46:25PM -0400,
> >>> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> >>>>> No it has something to do with the function not being
> >>>>> open source or something like that. It was on another
> >>>>> mailing
> >>>> That's not "stripped", that's "can't legally include".
> >>> It is stripped because it was there from the source.
> >>> Can't legally include is just their opinion.
> >> Please point me to the source on the OpenOffice website.
> >> I can't seem to find it.
> >>
> >>> The cool thing is I can override their opinion and put
> >>> it back the way the developers provided it for all to
> >>> use as we decide too.
> >
> > The OpenOffice.org package on the web site will do things
> > that can't be done in the Fedora version.  Even as early as
> > the 1.0.3 version (I have a copy on Knoppix 3.3 live CD)
> > from the OOo site had this function in it.
>
> You didn't answer the question.  What you are saying is not in dispute.
>
> Please point me to the *source* on the OpenOffice website (preferably in
> srpm format, but tar.gz will be fine) to download.
>


http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

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