Open Office upgrade??

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 02:11:23 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 15:21 -0500, John DeCarlo wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>          What the Linux community needs is standard set of
>         directories,
>         which would really take the load off of each distro to
>         maintain all
>         packages. "Why can't we all just get along?"
>         :) Ric
> 
> It has nothing to do with "standard set of directories".  LSB, Linux
> Standard Base, already addresses this.
> 
> It is really more of a question of whether people who put out distros
> can leave things alone.
> 
> There isn't any real technical reason not to include Open Office,
> Firefox, Thunderbird *exactly* the way the people who develop it put
> it out.
> 
> It's more of an ego thing. 
That is what I have suspected. I wonder what happened to the pursuit of
the "Right Thing". Owell, Ric


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