On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:28:53 -0500, Finn Gruwier Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi,
I'm not shure this is really a marketing issue, but since I'm on the
marketing mailing list, I'll introduce my proposal here...
As an OOo freak and Linux user, I have often felt frustrated about the
fact that most Linux ditributors do not distribute the standard OOo with
their distro but some sort of "Enhanced" OOo (though, usually its' not
possible to tell what the "enhancements" really are). This causes many
problems - one of them is that i makes it much more difficult to support
OOo on Linux than on Windows.
I think Louis mentioned the problem when he was on the LinuxForum
conference in Copenhagen last spring.
If there's a common consensus in "OOo-land" that this is a problem, I
suggest we begin to think about what we can do to change it. Of course
the LGPL gives the Linux distributors the right to do (almost) whatever
they want to the OOo source code, so we can't force anyone to do what we
think they should do. Still I think that we might be able to persuade
some Linux distributors to work closer with OOo, which means taking our
product as it is without adding their own "salt and pepper" to it. One
of the ways to "persuade" them could be that we mentioned the
"recommended Linux distributions" from an OOo point of view on the
www.openoffice.org.
Comments, please?
Best regards,
Finn G. Larsen
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A couple of years ago Linspire founder Michael Robertson even came to the
list with the proposal of having a Linspire download on the OOo site but
he got a lot of flameback. I am not sure if this result will be any
different if it was Mark Shuttleworth with Ubuntu. Ever since RPM were
out, there has been a lot of Debian/Ubuntu/Slackware people comming with
questions about installing their OOo natively.
These are some of the challenges that we are facing right now and the
linux distribution has enhaced the OOo build stripping the non-free Java
dependencies, as well as other OOo themes for their gnome/kde (OOo just
recently is natively integrated) as well as some connection with the
actual OS.
--
Alexandro Colorado
Grupo de Usuarios Linux Tabasco
http://www.gultab.org
OpenOffice.org
Community Contact // Mexico
http://www.openoffice.org
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