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Subject: Re: math "formulae" using libreoffice
From: Gary Kline <kline () thought ! org>
Date: 2013-11-22 4:53:08
Message-ID: 20131122045308.GA7293 () ethic ! thought ! org
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 02:26:50AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:59:33 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > I'l ck it out, thankee. I have been wondering about the diff
> > between openX and libreX {X == "office"} but guessed that
> > "open" was what the BSD's chose ...
>
> No, they are two different products, maintained independently.
> If I remember correctly, it started with StarOffice as the first
> major office suite becoming a free product (I've been using
> version 3.x and 4.0 of this), it was then "incorporated" by
> Sun which later became OpenOffice. When Oracle bought and
> (mostly) destroyed Sun, OpenOffice was one of the victims;
> they added proprietary code and finally abandoned it.
Thanks for the datapoints. I don't pay much attention to
these utilities/programs unless I use them consistently.
I knew most of the [ early ] folks at Sun, &c, and knew they
were on the same wavelength as we are: Open. I never saw
Sun going down the drain... . {I'll stop there; if I say
what I really think I can imagine me being shot or sued. I
understand why you prefer TeX! It would probably be too
much of a Curve now. Maybe not; I could follow your tips
and examples for my my book... !
> That
> was the time when LibreOffice was forked. Today, LibreOffice
> is _the_ office suite per se.
hmm. May be time to volunteer if they need it. I'm still
plotting changes to xev.c. I have some things working. For
sure, What's around half done will be finished in a few months.
seems like I keep hearing good news about open-source <S>,
where S includes not only software, but I believe operating
systems.
> On FreeBSD, all three versions have been available, and today
> you can still install both OpenOffice and LibreOffice; only
> StarOffice is no longer available (disappeared around 2010).
>
It may turn out that I'll use my 2009 Dell for devel work
with FreeBSD 9.2 and make sure it ports to the linux distros.
See how far I can go with the EEE-700 laptops. ;-)
>
> --
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
Twenty-seven years of service to the Unix community.
http://www.thought.org/HOPE
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