and then there's ... The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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 I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. From: Tom Davies <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:58 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks To: Bruce Byfield <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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) > -- 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
