No more OOo in UNR 10.04

[Knapp]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
> .
>>>
>>
>> Right... and all of those students that use netbooks to open/save MS
>> Office docs, spreadsheets, etc., in OOo[1] will now have to jump through
>> hoops to install OOo (or just boot to Windows & leave it there). What a
>> brilliant (not) idea.
>>
>
> Or they can just open and save MS office docs in google docs,,, You
> really think if sudo apt-get install open-office is a hassle (of, if you
> prefer, an in your face GUI click here Icon in the software centre) it's
> going to matter to them what program they are using?
>
> I think the inclusion or not of OO or Gimp, or whatever is really such a
> minor non-issue that's it's silly to debate when Ubuntu still can not be
> installed in a location where dial-up is the only internet without
> *real* hassle.

Lets face it, what is default is what the majority of people will be
using in the long run and that means that what is default is what will
grow and get the debugging and programming time. Things like gimp will
face a slow death if they are not the default on the biggest distro.
It is worth talking about!


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