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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:20:27
Message-Id: 201010152220.45457.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice by Florian Philipp
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 19:30 on Friday 15 October 2010, Florian
2 Philipp did opine thusly:
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4 > Am 15.10.2010 16:19, schrieb Andrés Becerra Sandoval:
5 > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:05 AM, András Csányi <sayusi.ando@×××××.com
6 > >
7 > > <mailto:sayusi.ando@×××××.com>> wrote:
8 > >> Hi All,
9 > >>
10 > >> I would like to know when will be part of portage the LibreOffice? I
11 > >> know this is an unsupported software (I have found in Gentoo Forum
12 > >> unsupported software part).
13 >
14 > [...]
15 >
16 > > Hello,
17 > >
18 > > I have libreoffice-bin installed from rion overlay and it is working
19 > > fine for the moment.
20 >
21 > [...]
22 >
23 > There is also what looks like a source build (haven't tried it) in
24 > geki-overlay.
25 >
26 > Just out of curiosity: I thought LibreOffice is just a renamed
27 > OpenOffice because of trademark issues with Oracle and not even the name
28 > is fixed for the moment. Doesn't that mean that the OpenOffice ebuilds
29 > will slowly migrate to LibreOffice, anyway? When I look at the version
30 > number, OpenOffice is currently at 3.2.1 and LibreOffice from
31 > geki-overlay at 3.2.99.1.
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34 LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.org. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
35 Especially don't let Oracle tell you otherwise.
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37 Read the press release on The Document Foundation's website for the truth.
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42 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva)