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Posted by Gregory Shearman on July 27, 2007, 8:07 am
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plenty560@yahoo.com 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?
Yes. I build OOO from source whenever a new version comes out.
I run Gentoo Linux which makes it easy to build such gigantic projects.
> 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?
Anything could be hidden in the hundreds of megabytes of OOO source code.
Don't think you are safe when building a binary.
I think you may be a bit paranoid.
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Regards,
Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
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