Re: [libreoffice-users] Question Concerning your product

On 12/22/2011 03:06 AM, doug wrote:
> 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
I take it you do not think that the version[s] of LibreOffice on the 
LibreOffice-NA.US <http://libreoffice-na.us/> site [and other project 
sites] are an unmodified versions of LO?

These DVD projects, like the -NA.us one, do not modify LO, but they 
present LO towards a specific community group.  There are several 
projects out there, some with links on the LO web pages.  They do not 
have the range of install files that LO's "official" site has, but that 
does not mean they are "hacks" of LO.

LibreOffice-NA.US <http://libreoffice-na.us/>, has produced a DVD 
versions for distribution of LO and all the extras that a user might 
want with their LO install.  Documentation, dictionaries and other 
extensions, templates, artwork, etc., etc., all in one place or on the 
DVD media so the user does not have to go searching different places for 
them.  Some of the extras are not conveniently accessible on the LO web 
pages for the users to find, since they are not found on LO's sites.

There are other projects in other languages, for DVD and other access to 
LO's files.  They may or may not have their project "officially" listed 
on one of LO's web pages.  I know for a fact that there is a guy in 
Malta that is creating a distribution DVD for his native language, which 
is not listed in the LO pages.

SO, please do not imply that if you get your copy of LO from places 
other than LO's download page or the Linux repository, it would be an 
unofficially modified version of LO.  That is not true for all cases.  
Many people are just presenting LO differently in a different way, 
without modifying the install files.

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