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. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
