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Date:      Sat, 17 Mar 2007 7:36:35 -0700
From:      Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
To:        <ports@freebsd.org>
Cc:        youshi10@u.washington.edu
Subject:   RE: (no subject)
Message-ID:  <20070317143636.LMPK2045.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03>

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> >>     They will?  Why?
> >>     While there's no reason to think they want to gratuitously
> >> create bad feelings, FreeBSD machines are a small fraction of the
> >> current (and potential) user base.  They could blow off FreeBSD -
> >> heck, *BSD - first thing tomorrow and not notice.
> >>     OpenOffice.Org is under no obligation to FreeBSD, or its users,
> >> whatsoever.  Of course ... if you want to step up and contribute
> >> patches (or pay someone to do so) then this will get corrected.
> >>     Welcome to the underside of open source software.
> >>
> >>
> >>                 Robert Huff
> > 
> > What about the Seamonkey headers break OpenOffice though? 
> Sheesh, the 
> > OpenOffice people should know that it's an unsupported 
> browser and bad 
> > to have sitting around on a machine for security reasons 
> (riddled with 
> > security bugs).
> > 
> > Provide me with the perfunctory necessary patches and 
> stuff, and I'll 
> > give compiling it a go with Seamonkey's headers.
> > 
> > -Garrett
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't appear that mozilla actually 
> needs to be installed for OOo-2.x-devel and it appears that 
> instead it 
> just automatically drags in mozilla off the web and compiles 
> portions of 
> OOo specifically using mozilla's headers.
> 
> Either way I'm trying a compile right now and will hopefully 
> get through 
> without a hitch (even though I'm getting a bit sort on disk 
> space =\..).
> 
> -Garrett

Hi Garrett
Just want to say how much I appreciate what you are doing

David




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