On Wed, Oct 02, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: open office (finally)": > Quoting Ely Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > As usuall the stupidity of the israeli goverment. > > They won't join the europian project of making a file format which is not > > word specific. They would not join sun's efford to make openoffice hebrew. > > Is there a working version of the Sun Hebrew thingy? Because if not, I don't > blame the government for not investing in vaporware, and preferring a working > solution (albeit buggy).
But actually Eli made a good point: if it will never be possible to integrate IBM's code into openoffice (because of some silly lawyer fights), IBM's code will be absolutely useless. The government should not invest a penny in something that the citizens will not be able to use. Redhat 8.0 already comes with OpenOffice. Think about it, if it weren't for the argument between OpenOffice and IBM's lawyers, Redhat 8.0 could have had a full-featured Hebrew OpenOffice out-of-the-box! I don't know who's to blame, but I sure know who's suffering from this (all of us in Israel, and the IBM developers whose product fewer people can use). Let's face it, if IBMs code does not get integrated into OpenOffice, pretty soon people will stop updating the patches for the latest OpenOffice releases, nobody will spend the 3GB and 3 days (?) needed to compile the monster and nobody will redistribute the resulting beast. Already, the rpm/deb we have was based on the compilation efforts of one person and based on some non- current version of OpenOffice. -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Oct 2 2002, 26 Tishri 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Tact is the art of making a point without http://nadav.harel.org.il |making an enemy. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
