Hi :) Ahhh, thanks for the warning! It could be fun or i might just let it go for a while longer and try to catch it sometime after they have moved on. Regards from Tom :)
On 21 March 2014 16:06, Charles-H. Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 2014-03-21 16:48, Tom Davies a écrit : > >> Hi :) >> The wikipedia entry for OpenOffice seemed really quite biased towards >> Apache OpenOffice and somewhat confusing terminology that >> misrepresented the facts. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice#Software >> >> So i just edited the introduction. Previously it said; >> "OpenOffice.org (OOo) a discontinued open-source ..." >> so i deleted the word "discontinued" and added a line saying >> "Now renamed as both "Apache OpenOffice" (AOO) and "LibreOffice" (LO >> (or LibO)) as both copied their original code from OOo." >> >> I don't know why mainstreamers have such trouble with the notion that >> it's possible to copy&paste as well as cut&paste. Perhaps they just >> don't understand biological systems either. When cells first divide >> which is the original! ffs. Of course the answer is both "neither" >> and "both" at the same time so i guess it is a difficult concept to >> grasp. >> >> >> The page also made a big point about the code contribution from IBM >> but no mention of Go-oo so i added that and added that both had >> contributed code to the other (because outright admitting that IBM's >> contribution is also going into LO might be taken badly by corporate >> organisations). Hopefully all just vague enough to be true and to >> avoid potential problems wrt to ownership etc. Finally, it seemed >> weird that there were no links to Apache or TDF. >> >> So hopefully all quite a lot better now! > > > > Thanks Tom! Be prepared for some hard work though. It seems there has been > lots of LibreOffice haters editing that page in the past, and as such your > own contributions might end up being overwritten very quickly. If you feel > something's not right over there please let us know. > > Best, > > Charles. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
