Quoting Bruce Byfield <bbyfield@axion.net>:
"Fork" is a free software term for a project that branches off from an existing project to develop the code in its own way. For example, LibreOffice is a forkof OpenOffice.org. The term's been in use for at least 20 years, so I didn't think twice about using it.
and the wikipedia entry is at least a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice Dave
On Tuesday 14 October 2014 06:50:56 PM anne-ology wrote:would you like a spoon & knife with that ;-) If 'fork' has now become a computer term - [and I just 'searched' it to see] - then just what is it? Curiously wondering what the next word will be that will be transformed by the computer industry ;-) From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield@axion.net> Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:36 PM Subject: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks To: users@global.libreoffice.org Can anyone point me to a list of LibreOffice and OOo forks? Thanks, -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/-- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.orgProblems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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