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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
