from a legal point, being the same, not merely similar, is grounds for copyright infringement.
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: On 02/03/2013 07:58 AM, Roberta wrote: > >> Can you make libreoffice's interface more similar to the office 2013 >> one's? >> Another thing... why doesn't artwork work on writer??? >> > If I understand correctly, MS Office 2013 is a copyrighted work. > Remember the recent court battle over the similar appearances of cell > phones and the billion dollar judgment? Being similar to something that is > copyrighted is grounds for legal actions. > Besides, why should LIbreOffice be a MS Office look alike? > > --Dan > > -- For unsubscribe instructions 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
