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Hi :)
Effectively yeh it was just a name change and updating/recreating the
infrastructure.  A bit like when Star Office became OpenOffice.

Of course Star Office is still floating around somewhere but it doesn't
bear much resemblance to LibreOffice or even OpenOffice.  So it can't
really count as a fork any more and may not even be usable at all these
days.


One major difference wrt the poem is that it's fairly easy to uninstall
either OpenOffice or LibreOffice and install the other.  Of course
LibreOffice has more functionality now so you might miss those features but
the files should open and be very usable.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 16 October 2014 18:17, anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com> wrote:

       and then there's ...

The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost (1874ā€“1963)

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and Iā€”
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.



From: Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks
To: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield@axion.net>
Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>,
Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com>


Hi :)
A fork is often a single piece of metal.  The handle is usually a single,
slightly wider cylinder (ish).  The 2, 3 or 4 prongs are typically a
corresponding fraction of the width of the handle section.  With 2 or 4
prongs (tines?) it is usually difficult to identify any 1 of them as being
the original continuation of the handle and the other(s) as being
"off-shoots" or "child".

So i think "fork" is an excellent term.  It only gets confusing when people
try to say that this or that prong is "the original".


When TDF split away from OpenOffice.org it took away sooo much that
OpenOffice.org was barely recognisable as the entity it once was.  It was
only the name staying the same that kept it afloat, that and the amazing
hard-work of the few remaining people.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 16 October 2014 03:42, Bruce Byfield <bbyfield@axion.net> wrote:

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. ;-)

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


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