On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:19:36AM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> begin  quoting Todd Walton as of Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:08:42AM -0800:
> > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:49:48 -0800, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > wrote:
> > > This is why I've not updated my copy of OpenOffice.org -- software that
> > > demands access or refused to run counts as malicious.
> > 
> > What's the deal with OpenOffice.org?
> 
> Requires root access to install (under OS X). I was told that I should
> just provide the password to let it install, and objection to such
> things merely indicated I didn't understand The UNIX Way.
> 
> -Stewart "Compiling OpenOffice.org was prohibitively complicated" Stremler

This (and popping circuit breakers every time I invoked it) is why I
abandoned OO for Abiword, Gnumeric, etc. It is everything that is wrong
with humongous, monolithic SW. If that's "The UNIX Way," I skipped a
lesson.

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Lan Barnes                    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Guy, SCM Specialist     858-354-0616
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