On Wednesday 15 October 2014 10:34:39 PM Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
The key to me is not whether or not it is a fork, child, or any other relation to the original OOo project, but the fact that the people behind LibreOffice in the early days decided that they did not want to see the idea of an FOSS office suite package to die do to the lack of "caring" by the one who owns the brand name of the current FOSS package.
All very well, but the original context was defining the term "fork" to someone who had never heard the term. By now, I'm sure, she's hopelessly confused, and a little sorry she asked. ;-) -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted