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Posted by Robin T Cox on July 26, 2007, 11:40 am
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On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:00:03 -0700, plenty560 wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Has anybody here ever built OpenOffice from sources, or know of
> someone who has recently, who can say that doing so is possible?
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> I ask because I am curious as to whether I should be trusting
> the binaries coming from Sun.
>
> After all, it seems that so many big US corporations are
> eager to cave in to the demands of the NSA or RIAA/MPAA.
> I have to wonder whether OO maybe has spyware in
> the binary download that is not in the source code download.
> AT&T, Comcast, etc... why would Sun be any less unethical?
>
> Thanks.
Reminds me of the recent story about the US government checking up on
Vista owners.
http://www.whitedust.net/news/3984/United_States_Government_Online_Watchdogs?_Part_of_the_war_on_terror?.../
http://tinyurl.com/2potgq
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