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From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject: Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro
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Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2025-12-17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On 18 Dec 2025 06:54:18 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>> OK, so what? [Strawman omitted]
>>
>> The point being that LibreOffice is no longer "trying to clone commercial 
>> offerings", as you originally said.
> 
> My point is: was it *ever* doing that? Even when it was commercial, was
> it trying to clone anything that much?

Certainly moreso than other open-source programs for individual
office suite tasks like Ted for word processing and Xfig for
graphics.

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