Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

On Wednesday 15 October 2014 02:46:50 PM Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> On 10/15/2014 01:05 PM, Stefan Weigel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am 15.10.2014 um 02:45 schrieb Bruce Byfield:
> > > For example, LibreOffice is a fork
> > > of OpenOffice.org.
> >
> > Not exactly.
> >
> > https://twitter.com/webmink/status/25769232489
> >
> > For some people (includin> 
> I think having a different name is important, since we did a real lot of
> work to make OOo better for our initial release 4+ years ago.
>
> We had no "baggage" of an older name pass down from company to company.
> We were able to make our own stand on what we could do as a "fork" or
> "child" of the code base that was OOo.  We showed that TDF was prepared
> to make the best version it could with its initial version[s] of an
> office suite based on OOo.  We did so well, that it looks to me that
> several of the other "forked" projects ended up "fading away" after
> people saw how well TDF/LO worked and how much was improved with the
> first few releases.
>
> So I think not having the rights to OpenOffice.org may have been a
> blessing, not a bad thing.
>
> Since I started with LO since its first "public" release version, I
> think we did all right.g me) LibreOffice is the true
> > OpenOffice.org, but it´s not allowed to use its original name. ;-)

I'm grateful for what LO has done. In four years, it has done more to improve 
the code than OpenOffice.org managed in ten years.

However, joking aside, I'm not going to revise history. LO began as a fork and 
a fork it remains.


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