[conspire] Christian draws out a Sun Microsystems guy

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Tony Godshall (togo at of.net):

> So what do you think, Rick?  Will they fork?  

The funny thing is:  Many packages in distributions are _somewhat_ in a
state of forkage from upstream, all the time.  Mozilla Navigator and
Firefox, for example, tend to have some fairly extensive distro-applied
improvements.  This is suboptimal, but is just the way things work out.

There also tends to be, at minimum, some minor ongoing forkage to make
packages comply with local distro-specific policies about where files
go, how packaging works, etc.

Anyhow, at minimum, the Debian OO.o packagers already have gotten used
to re-doing some parts of OO.o 1.x that relied on Sun's proprietary JRE
-- not necessarily out of any aversion to that JRE, but rather so that
OO.o could go into Debian's "main" collection rather than the "contrib"
or "non-free" ones.  So, that's likely to continue.  I have no clear
idea how many other distributions will join them.  It would be a good
idea for them to do so.