On 12/21/2011 08:08 PM, Mike Watson wrote:
I am considering downloading your product to avoid having to buy Microsoft Office. But I have a
question about your product. On your Features page you said that the LGPL public license could be
hacked by the user. What does that mean? Does it mean that anyone can hack it? Please reply
whenever you can. Thank you for your time.
I believe that what you're seeing is the fact that LO is "open source,"
which means that the code is
available to anyone who wants it, and therefore can be
modified--"hacked," if you will--by anyone
sufficiently savvy to do so. It does NOT mean that the program you
download and install in your
system has been modified or hacked, so long as you get it thru the
LibreOffice website or thru your
Linux distribution's repository. But if someone wants to put in some
extra feature, and is smart
enough to do so, he can, unlike with the Microsoft product, whose code
is kept highly secret.
HTH--doug
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