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| Message-ID | <694315f5@news.ausics.net> (permalink) |
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| From | not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) |
| Subject | Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| References | <10hd0v5$1qp6n$1@dont-email.me> <693b2b9f@news.ausics.net> <10hqc7a$2aod0$2@dont-email.me> <6941d11c@news.ausics.net> <10huans$3h3iq$1@dont-email.me> |
| Date | 2025-12-18 06:43 +1000 |
| Organization | Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net |
Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2025-12-16, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote: >>> On 12 Dec 2025 06:37:51 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >>>> Others prefer software that does try to clone commercial offerings, >>>> like LibreOffice, though. >>> >>> Not sure what "commercial offerings" it is trying to clone, >> >> M$ 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, Well that just further proves my point, it wasn't just taking cues from commercial software, it originally was commercial software. Sustaining a project with a commercial-style design and scale is more likely to require donations than other open-source software projects that perform single "office" tasks in their own, often more unique, way. As usual LDO snipped that point I was trying to make from my earlier post. >>> given that Microsoft is going all-in on AI and the cloud, and >>> LibreOffice is not. >> >> Well I don't know what modern M$ Office is like, but >> Open/LibreOffice is definitely similar to M$ office versions in the >> 2000s when it started. > > It. Did. Not. Start. In. The. 2000s. Yikes, well OK the codebase went back further before it was open-sourced. I'm really not that fussed about the specifics of its history. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#
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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
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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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