Re: [libreoffice-users] Question Concerning your product

Hi :)
True that the code is unmodified in the North American Dvd project (and other Dvd projects).  
Typically, as i understand it, they tend to bundle a bunch of useful programs and useful extras 
(better  dictionaries, artwork, templates, Extensions etc) that people can choose to use (or not 
use) in addition to the main program supplied in/on the Dvd.  

Personally i think all those Dvd projects should be hosted on TDF and LibreOffice servers in 
addition to other places if possible.  While they aren't, there is an element of suspicion for 
people that are not familiar with the personalities involved.  Those of us that do know you have 
good reason to trust you.  My understanding is that the Dvd projects are there mainly for people to 
make Dvds in bulk in order to sell or distribute at events and such rather than being for the 
general public.  
Regards from
Tom :)



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From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question Concerning your product
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 22 December, 2011, 15:20

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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