Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

Hi :)
Yes.

That is one of the weird things about computers.  When 2 copies are made of
a thing it can be impossible to identify one as being "the original".

It's also possible to have weird cases where "the original" is the one that
has least of it's 'original' qualities left and "the newer one" retains
more of the qualities of "the original" than the one people seem to claim
is the original.  ie it's time to have new terms, such as "fork" and to be
clear about what those terms mean and what they don't mean.

In this case there is a question about whether LibreOffice really is a fork
or whether it's an off-shoot or "child" or some other term that already
exists.  It makes no sense to redefine what "fork" means.

If LibreOffice is a fork then it describes it as having equal weight, with
maybe some pros and cons to each prong.  Both being able to lay claim to
being the original and both also able to be seen as something else.

If it's not a fork then it fits neatly into descriptive words that already
cover such eventualities.  A thesaurus will have tons of such terms because
similar processes have happened since the first cell division occurred.
But with computers, as with biology, we have a concept that is outside of
normal experience and one that is difficult to explain.

Lets call a spade a spade.  If it's not a spade than don't call it one
[shrugs]

Regards from
Tom :)



On 17 October 2014 13:29, Werner <wernerfbd@gmx.ch> wrote:

> On 10/17/2014 13:44, James Knott wrote:
>
> > On 10/17/2014 02:29 AM, Werner wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Tom,
> > >
> > > On 10/16/2014 19:31, Tom Davies wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > 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
> > > StarOffice never was a fork, OpenOffice forked off it and then
> > > LibreOffice forked off OpenOffice.  In other words it is the 'new'
> > > thing which is a 'fork' and the 'original' stays the original:).
> >
> > I thought Sun created OpenOffice when they open sourced StarOffice.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice
> >
> >  Maybe then StarWriter -> StarOffice -> OpenOffice then were just
> 'renames', I thought they were forks too, and only LibreOffice is a fork of
> OpenOffice.
>
> Werner
>
>
>
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