on Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 08:51:28AM -0300, Carlos Laviola (claviola@ajato.com.br) wrote: > > On 24-Mar-2001 Ethan Benson wrote: > > StarOffice is non-free and not packaged, so you will have to install > > it into /usr/local via a tarball. eventually OpenOffice will be > > packaged but i think its still in a rather broken state since its > > StarOffice + `sanitation' of patented/stol^H^H^H^Hlicenced code. > > Not only that, but it also manages to be incredibly more bloated than > SOffice 5.2 itself, and doesn't include any printing support (they're > trying to implement a free alternative to SO 5.2's old printing > driver). However, I must admit that it is very good looking - supports > my xfstt-supplied TT fonts et al. SO5.2 supports TT under xfstt. I tried installing OO once, failed miserably. The raw install is some 60-80 MB. The total build environment is something like 600 MB -- more free space than my aging desktop box has, and given my current cashflow, is likely to have for some time. Had an exchange with Brian Behlendorf over this. The code is _very_ pre-beta (it fails to install properly under many conditions), and should be prominantly advertised as such. If individuals (or companies) want to devote effort to improving it, great. But don't represent the state as anything other. This was a major failing of the Mozilla project. Speaking of which, Joel Sposky's comments at http://joel.editthispage.com/ on the Mozilla project are interesting. Brian's also written and spoken intelligently on what's required for a successful free software project. He's certainly got props from his work on Apache. I can only hope Collab will manage OO successfully. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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