Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Wikipedia entry for OpenOffice software

Hi :)
Ahhh, thanks for the warning!  It could be fun or i might just let it
go for a while longer and try to catch it sometime after they have
moved on.
Regards from
Tom :)



On 21 March 2014 16:06, Charles-H. Schulz
<charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> Le 2014-03-21 16:48, Tom Davies a écrit :
>
> > Hi :)
> > The wikipedia entry for OpenOffice seemed really quite biased towards
> > Apache OpenOffice and somewhat confusing terminology that
> > misrepresented the facts.
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice#Software
> >
> > So i just edited the introduction.  Previously it said;
> > "OpenOffice.org (OOo) a discontinued open-source ..."
> > so i deleted the word "discontinued" and added a line saying
> > "Now renamed as both "Apache OpenOffice" (AOO) and "LibreOffice" (LO
> > (or LibO)) as both copied their original code from OOo."
> >
> > I don't know why mainstreamers have such trouble with the notion that
> > it's possible to copy&paste as well as cut&paste.  Perhaps they just
> > don't understand biological systems either.  When cells first divide
> > which is the original! ffs.  Of course the answer is both "neither"
> > and "both" at the same time so i guess it is a difficult concept to
> > grasp.
> >
> >
> > The page also made a big point about the code contribution from IBM
> > but no mention of Go-oo so i added that and added that both had
> > contributed code to the other (because outright admitting that IBM's
> > contribution is also going into LO might be taken badly by corporate
> > organisations).  Hopefully all just vague enough to be true and to
> > avoid potential problems wrt to ownership etc.  Finally, it seemed
> > weird that there were no links to Apache or TDF.
> >
> > So hopefully all quite a lot better now!
>
>
>
> Thanks Tom! Be prepared for some hard work though. It seems there has been
> lots of LibreOffice haters editing that page in the past, and as such your
> own contributions might end up being overwritten very quickly. If you feel
> something's not right over there please let us know.
>
> Best,
>
> Charles.
>
>
>
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