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Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Fri Mar 16 03:56:00 UTC 2007
Robert Huff wrote:
> Vizion writes:
>
>> I do not know about that.. If there is a refusal to keep the port
>> in the tree then the folks at OpenOffice will HAVE to do
>> something about it.
>
> They will? Why?
> While there's no reason to think they want to gratuitously
> create bad feelings, FreeBSD machines are a small fraction of the
> current (and potential) user base. They could blow off FreeBSD -
> heck, *BSD - first thing tomorrow and not notice.
> OpenOffice.Org is under no obligation to FreeBSD, or its users,
> whatsoever. Of course ... if you want to step up and contribute
> patches (or pay someone to do so) then this will get corrected.
> Welcome to the underside of open source software.
>
>
> Robert Huff
What about the Seamonkey headers break OpenOffice though? Sheesh, the
OpenOffice people should know that it's an unsupported browser and bad
to have sitting around on a machine for security reasons (riddled with
security bugs).
Provide me with the perfunctory necessary patches and stuff, and I'll
give compiling it a go with Seamonkey's headers.
-Garrett
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