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| From | The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro |
| Date | 2025-12-17 13:57 +0000 |
| Organization | A little, after lunch |
| Message-ID | <10hucs7$3i15b$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 17/12/2025 13:20, Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2025-12-16, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote: >>> On 12 Dec 2025 06:37:51 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >>>> Others prefer software that does try to clone commercial offerings, >>>> like LibreOffice, though. >>> >>> Not sure what "commercial offerings" it is trying to clone, >> >> M$ Office and all the commercial Office suites that were common >> when OpenOffice.org, which was forked into LibreOffice, started. > > According to Wikipedia, it started in *1985*. Might not have been open > source then, but that's when it started, it didn't appear from a vacuum > in the moment it was open-sourced. > IIRC that was Star Office, Libre Office was a later fork around 2010. > Wikipedia also says in the infobox that Microsoft Office is from 1990, > but IIRC this one started as a collection of different tools Microsoft > acquired, so might predate that. > >> The first paragraph on the Wikipedia page even states it: >> >> "Sun open-sourced the software in July 2000 as a free alternative >> to Microsoft Office, and released OpenOffice.org version 1.0 on 1 >> May 2002." >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org > Still not Libre office -- Labour - a bunch of rich people convincing poor people to vote for rich people by telling poor people that "other" rich people are the reason they are poor. Peter Thompson
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Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-16 01:21 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-16 12:16 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-12-17 07:37 +1000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-16 21:53 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-12-18 06:54 +1000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-17 22:13 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-17 23:43 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-18 01:26 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-18 10:07 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-12-19 08:28 +1000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-12-19 08:24 +1000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-19 01:08 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-17 13:20 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-17 13:57 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-17 14:34 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-17 20:23 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-17 23:41 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-18 01:20 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-18 10:02 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2025-12-20 07:17 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-18 10:01 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-18 09:59 +0000
Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-12-18 06:43 +1000
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