Re: [orca-list] [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice (fwd)

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:39:21
From: Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc gmail com>
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Subject: Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Squall Lionheart
<headmastersquall gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Andreas Radke <a radke arcor de> wrote:
>
> > LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle
> > OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos.
> >
> > First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the
> > Office packaging area and nobody stepped in.
> >
> > Then there's the poor distribution support Oracle spends on the
> > distributions. They almost do not care about custom distribution builds
> > and their interest. They break the build against system libs
> > every now and then and it takes ages to contact the relevant devs to
> > fix their bugs. Development is only driven by the profit interests of
> > Oracle... You can put in here all the arguments the Document foundation
> > has given at its birth.
> >
> > So don't expect any efforts to fix bugs in Oracle packages anymore. As
> > soon as they will break due to a .so name bump or something like this
> > I'll remove all the packages from our repos if nobody else is willing
> > to maintain them.
> >
> >
> > Any objections to add
> > "replaces=('openoffice-base') " to the next LibO pkg?
> >
> > -Andy
>
> I am an OpenOffice user and as long as LibreOffice will provide the same (or
> similar) experience, I'm game for the change.  Not a big Oracle fan and if I
> can avoid their software on my computer, it would be preferred.

+1

I've been following LO development for a couple weeks now and it is
really impressive.
There is a *ton* of legacy code and stupid things getting removed
because of how conservative openoffice development was.