Hi :) Not all of us are native-English speakers so words are sometimes mis-used.
Clone is not quite the right word but it's close enough. This time i think a more precise word might be "rewrite". To put it in a way that might be easier for an office user to understand ... Often when editing an old document it's easiest to just change a few word here or there but other times it is easier to start again from scratch and rewrite it from scratch. Also when people say Linux they usually mean "Gnu and Linux" which the FSF wants us to write as Gnu/Linux. The Gnu programs kinda sit on top of the Linux kernel rather than being divided by it so i feel the / is the wrong character and it might be better to say Gnu&Linux to show that the kernel is just 1 package amongst many. The Gnu people are trying to write their own kernel called Hurd but it's rarely used. Regards from Tom :) On 2 December 2013 02:56, Peter West <p...@pbw.id.au> wrote: > Typo there. Obviously you meant to say "non-proprietary." > > Peter West > > ...he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins. > > On 2 Dec 2013, at 4:32 am, Urmas <davian...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> "James Knott": >> >>> Ever hear of Linux? >> >> Linux is a clone of UNIX, an epitome of a proprietary operating system. > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > 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: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
