Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.005 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; '[0]': 0.09; 'false.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; "(i'll": 0.16; '[2].': 0.16; 'dump,': 0.16; 'finney': 0.16; 'fork': 0.16; 'gained': 0.16; 'greatness': 0.16; 'ignoring': 0.16; 'measured': 0.16; 'openoffice': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:tabular': 0.16; 'two.': 0.16; 'foundation': 0.20; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'developers': 0.25; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; '[1]': 0.29; '[2]': 0.30; 'especially': 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'url:wiki': 0.31; 'claiming': 0.31; 'url:wikipedia': 0.31; 'writes:': 0.31; 'linux': 0.33; 'development.': 0.33; 'subject: (': 0.35; 'oracle': 0.36; 'subject:data': 0.36; 'shows': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'two': 0.37; 'clear': 0.37; 'ben': 0.38; 'product.': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'simply': 0.61; 'interest': 0.64; 'great': 0.65; 'wall': 0.65; 'improvements': 0.68; 'transfer': 0.82; 'distinguish': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ben Finney Subject: LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:14:36 +1000 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rasputin.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xBD41714B X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 9CFE 12B0 791A 4267 887F 520C B7AC 2E51 BD41 714B X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-gpg.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+HEBufBfYJYQP4ivZgQTT66VZfk= X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1375427696 news.xs4all.nl 15890 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:39779 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:51786 Chris Angelico writes: > […] rather than OO/LibreOffice. (I'll not distinguish those two. Far > as I'm concerned, they're one product with two names.) That's simply false. LibreOffice has, since the 2010 fork of the code base and especially since the exodus of developers to The Document Foundation [0], gained a great number of improvements [1] and is now the clear inheritor of active development. Oracle's behaviour (as holder of the OpenOffice trademark) shows they have no interest in a free-software OpenOffice. Even Oracle Linux no longer has OpenOffice, instead shipping LibreOffice [2]. Claiming they're the same product is ignoring the transfer of development away from the OpenOffice.org code dump, and to LibreOffice as the actively-developed product. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#History_after_the_establishment_of_The_Document_Foundation [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Release_history [2] https://oss.oracle.com/ol6/docs/RELEASE-NOTES-U3-en.html -- \ “True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to | `\ others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you | _o__) want.” —Larry Wall | Ben Finney