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Re: LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data)

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Date 2013-08-02 10:37 +0100
Subject Re: LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data)
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.110.1375436249.1251.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> 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. ...
>
> 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.

To be sure, they're different; but they're part of one family tree.
It's like referring to "Debian/Ubuntu" when you're discussing
something where it makes absolutely zero difference which one you're
talking about. The difference between using LibreOffice and using
OpenOffice is nothing compared to the difference between working with
either of the above and putting a literal in your code.

ChrisA

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Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-07-31 13:39 -0500
  Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-31 19:02 +0000
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-07-31 14:35 -0500
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-01 01:50 +0100
      Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-08-01 14:04 +0000
      Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-08-02 02:15 -0700
    Re: Editing tabular data Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-02 16:35 +1000
      Re: Editing tabular data rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 09:58 -0700
    LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-02 17:14 +1000
    Re: LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-02 10:37 +0100
      Re: LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-02 14:00 +0000
    Re: LibreOffice Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-02 21:26 -0400
    Re: LibreOffice David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2013-08-03 11:08 -0400
  Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> - 2013-07-31 20:03 +0100
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-07-31 19:07 +0000
  Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2013-07-31 13:37 -0700
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2013-07-31 18:40 -0500

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