au contraire This conversation has been fascinating & informative ... and BTW I too started, as Tim did, with OO - although I'd thought back-then it had merely changed its name ;-)
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfi...@axion.net> Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmas...@krackedpress.com> 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: 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