Re: [SLE] OpenOffice 2.0

From: Sid Boyce (sboyce_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 09/30/05

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    Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:24:50 +0100
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    James Knott wrote:
    > Don wrote:
    >
    >>
    >>Ya know, this just drives home the fact of how each and every distro of
    >>linux is it's own PROPRIETARY environment...
    >
    >
    > While SuSe has a modified version of OO, there's no technical reason
    > that the version from OpenOffice.org won't run. Also, most Linux
    > distros are moving to LSB, so that all the relevant files etc., will be
    > in the same place.
    >

    Here's hoping. It's been a long time since you could download and
    install a rpm or deb and have it run on any distro, it shouldn't be as
    it is now .... today on linuxtoday.com " Distributions Are Too
    "Alienated," Says Dell CEO" and he is not wrong.
    Regards
    Sid. 

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