[svlug] StarOFfice to be GPL'd, integrated with Gnome

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Jul 20 10:25:01 PDT 2000


begin  Aaron Lehmann quotation:
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/07/20/1255251&cid=307 is another
> great example of what I think about it :). It's a bit of a troll but it
> was fun to write.

It was.  On a more serious note, I think
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/07/20/1255251&cid=111 was
amazingly insightful.

(Synopsis:  Developer details how the snarl of excessive dependencies in
GNOMEified apps has gotten out of hand, and how poorly the message was
received when he un-did the unnecessary dependencies on multiple GNOME
packages on the GtkHTML utility.)

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