I second the motion! Doug
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Terry <[email protected]> wrote: > The post below reminds me of an old chestnut. Linux versions are now > packaged as rpms or debs. That could be problematic if the installer > works in a way which is incompatible with a particular operating system > (OS). > > That problem is always on my mind. Try as I have, I have been unable to > find (so far) a Linux OS which suits me as well as my present one. I have > also been unable to find a Linux operating system which supports > OpenOffice. Sooner or later, I will quite possibly have to switch to > LibreOffice just because the OO installer borks my OS. > > My recollection is that several years ago there was at least a > discussion about the possibility of a package of the same kind as > Firefox and Thunderbird. Mozilla provides a compressed folder > containing everything you need apart from plugins and, I dare say, > Mozilla could include plugins if it wanted to. > > In other words, the Mozilla software does NOT interfere with the operating > system. It is self-contained. > > That may be too big an issue for bugs. Does anyone think it worth raising > the issue and, if so, through which channel? > > Terry > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Rob Weir <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: > > Sent: Friday, 23 March 2012 1:26 PM > > Subject: Re: CVE-2012-0037: OpenOffice.org data leakage vulnerability > > > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:32 PM, NoOp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 03/22/2012 03:17 PM, Terry wrote: > >>> This quote from the page mentioned by Rob: > >>> > >>> <quote>Linux and other platforms should consult their distro or > > OS > >>> vendor for patch instructions.</quote> > >>> > >>> My distro doesn't support OpenOffice; most, I gather, don't. > >> ... > > > > This is good to know, very good in fact. We were working on several > > assumptions: > > > > 1) There were some users running OOo 3.3 on commercially supported LTS > > Linux builds. In those cases we did not want to encourage the user to > > mess with their files directly. It is important in those cases that > > they get the patch from their vendor. > > > > 2) Other users would just be using the latest distro support, which in > > most cases have silently switched OOo to LibreOffice. Since > > LibreOffice also fixed this same issue, such users would also get the > > patch via their vendor's update mechanism. > > > > What we did not know is the number of Linux users who uninstalled > > LibreOffice and manually installed OOo 3.3 instead. From the sounds > > of it, there are many such users. Me bad for missing that. But good > > for the future of the project that there are so many with a preference > > for OpenOffice. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
