On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:51 PM, H J <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Sat, 2/25/12, John Musbach <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why are you trying to build from source? What's wrong with the >> binaries they provide? > > Hi John, > > The authors of NeoOffice started charging for binaries beginning with > version 3.2. (Technically, they are asking for a voluntary donation, > but it's mandatory if you want to get the latest binaries. Feel free to > draw your own conclusions. It's not unfair to say that this step generated > some controversy and some rather pointed opinions -- some well-argued, > some not.) > > Anyway, I got curious about whether or not it would be possible to build > from source, which is posted in accordance with the GPL. Based on my > experience so far, the posted instructions _cannot_ be used to generate > the corresponding binaries, at least not as those instructions are > currently written.
Oh ok. I forget where I saw it, as this was quite some time ago, but I do recall the authors noting such difficulties when building from source and them strong recommending that binaries be used instead. It's almost as if they released some source to make their efforts seem genuine to the open source community, yet intentionally left out core elements so that users would be forced to fall back on their pre-built binaries. There's a reason why I've since left for LibreOffice. -- Best Regards, John Musbach _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
