Hi :) It's not "rewritting history" to say that almost all of what was OpenOffice is what is LibreOffice. Granted at least one pre-existing fork (Go-oo) also merged and that tons of work has gone into it all since then. All that OpenOffice managed to keep was the empty suite wrapper. Regards from Tom :)
On 15 October 2014 20:23, Bruce Byfield <bbyfi...@axion.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2014 02:46:50 PM Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster > wrote: > > On 10/15/2014 01:05 PM, Stefan Weigel wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Am 15.10.2014 um 02:45 schrieb Bruce Byfield: > > >> For example, LibreOffice is a fork > > >> of OpenOffice.org. > > > > > > Not exactly. > > > > > > https://twitter.com/webmink/status/25769232489 > > > > > > For some people (includin> > > I think having a different name is important, since we did a real lot of > > work to make OOo better for our initial release 4+ years ago. > > > > We had no "baggage" of an older name pass down from company to company. > > We were able to make our own stand on what we could do as a "fork" or > > "child" of the code base that was OOo. We showed that TDF was prepared > > to make the best version it could with its initial version[s] of an > > office suite based on OOo. We did so well, that it looks to me that > > several of the other "forked" projects ended up "fading away" after > > people saw how well TDF/LO worked and how much was improved with the > > first few releases. > > > > So I think not having the rights to OpenOffice.org may have been a > > blessing, not a bad thing. > > > > Since I started with LO since its first "public" release version, I > > think we did all right.g me) LibreOffice is the true > > > OpenOffice.org, but it´s not allowed to use its original name. ;-) > > I'm grateful for what LO has done. In four years, it has done more to > improve > the code than OpenOffice.org managed in ten years. > > However, joking aside, I'm not going to revise history. LO began as a fork > and > a fork it remains. > > > -- > Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) > blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com > website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ > > -- > 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
