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Vizion
vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com
Sat Mar 17 14:36:37 UTC 2007
> >> 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
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't appear that mozilla actually
> needs to be installed for OOo-2.x-devel and it appears that
> instead it
> just automatically drags in mozilla off the web and compiles
> portions of
> OOo specifically using mozilla's headers.
>
> Either way I'm trying a compile right now and will hopefully
> get through
> without a hitch (even though I'm getting a bit sort on disk
> space =\..).
>
> -Garrett
Hi Garrett
Just want to say how much I appreciate what you are doing
David
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