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) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? 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
