2013/1/31 Martin Sourada <martin.sour...@gmail.com> > Hi Marina, > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:14:41 +0100 > Marina Latini wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I'm an Ambassador and this proposal is confusing me. > > We have LibreOffice in our repositories; I think that bring back > > Apache OpenOffice generates only confusion between users, not freedom > > of choice. > > > The confusion is already there in Windows world, linux user should be > more capable of treating it as freedom of choice instead of confusion. > Also, since Apache took over OpenOffice.org and put it out of > incubation, it seems the development has been progressing rather well > and in a different direction than LibreOffice. While both started from > the same point, they're going to be different office suites with > different feature sets, different UIs, different devs, etc. > > I think it's beneficial to provide Fedora users with the choice of > installing either, or even both, provided there's enough interest > among the devs to make it so. From a user point of view, I think the > main manpower for F19 should go into getting it into repos and solving > *all* conflicts. They should be parallel installable and should not > conflict even at runtime with each other. Especially the runtime > conflicts would be really confusing to (some of) our users. > > With regards, > Martin > > I think that's not the point, one of the two suites will be dominant and you can't provide both of them on a live image for example. LibreOffice was introduced to our live images and we hit target 1GB, do you really think it could be useful having a larger image just because you want to provide both of the office suites? I think Fedora did the right decision moving towards LibreOffice, we should maintain that. Never change a winning team :) Regards
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