Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

       au contraire

       This conversation has been fascinating & informative ...
            and BTW I too started, as Tim did, with OO - although I'd
thought back-then it had merely changed its name  ;-)



From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield@axion.net>
Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Cc: Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com>


On Wednesday 15 October 2014 10:34:39 PM Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
wrote:

> The key to me is not whether or not it is a fork, child, or any other
> relation to the original OOo project, but the fact that the people
> behind LibreOffice in the early days decided that they did not want to
> see the idea of an FOSS office suite package to die do to the lack of
> "caring" by the one who owns the brand name of the current FOSS
> package.

All very well, but the original context was defining the term "fork" to
someone
who had never heard the term. By now, I'm sure, she's hopelessly confused,
and
a little sorry she asked. ;-)

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Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time)

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