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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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