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Google is sponsoring a free competitor to one of their proprietary solutions. I wonder why.
Also the vast majority of Google employees are probably open source users and fans themselves.
FreeOffice wasn't an option? Open Source Office? Anything-other-than-LibreOffice? OpenOffice is something that I can explain to my mother when I install it for her instead of MS Office, Mom, it's just like Office but it is open source. In fact she didn't notice for a long time. Libre Office? She'll question that for sure, and then what am I going to do, explain the GNU manifesto to her? Come on. I like the use of the…
FreeOffice wasn't an option? Open Source Office? Anything-other-than-LibreOffice? OpenOffice is something that I can explain to my mother when I install it for her instead of MS Office, Mom, it's just like Office but it is open source. In fact she didn't notice for a long time. Libre Office? She'll question that for sure, and then what am I going to do, explain the GNU manifesto to her? Come on. I like the use of the…
Did you explain to her what source code is and explain OSI's definition of open source (you know, DFSG rebranded)?
FreeOffice wasn't an option? Open Source Office? Anything-other-than-LibreOffice? OpenOffice is something that I can explain to my mother when I install it for her instead of MS Office, Mom, it's just like Office but it is open source. In fact she didn't notice for a long time. Libre Office? She'll question that for sure, and then what am I going to do, explain the GNU manifesto to her? Come on. I like the use of the…
"Libre" is probably better understood in Europe to mean "free" in its intended "free as in speech" sense.
Firefox was never named "Libre Interent Browser"
Google was never "Better Search Engine That Doesn't Totally Suck"
OpenOffice at least wasn't that clunky and got the point across.
This is a name by hackers for hackers. Why is that a good idea for a project with the mainstream reach of Firefox? This is a cross platform office suite, it could be used by literally EVERY PERSON WHO USES A COMPUTER, the name is extremely important. It doesn't have to mention a damn thing about open source, free software, or anything in its name. Most people don't care about Firefox's development model - they just like using it. OpenOffice should be the same way.
FreeOffice wasn't an option? Open Source Office? Anything-other-than-LibreOffice? OpenOffice is something that I can explain to my mother when I install it for her instead of MS Office, Mom, it's just like Office but it is open source. In fact she didn't notice for a long time. Libre Office? She'll question that for sure, and then what am I going to do, explain the GNU manifesto to her? Come on. I like the use of the…
Google is sponsoring a free competitor to one of their proprietary solutions. I wonder why.
I haven't tried any plugins yet for OpenOffice, but it would be awesome if there was a plugin for syncing back and forth to Google Docs.
In general I'm in favor of moving things out of Oracle's control, since they have acted as an untrustworthy partner in many places, but why not use the existing fork? The article dismisses Go-oo as not having enough support.. Why not give them more, rather than splitting the community further?
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Did you explain to her what source code is and explain OSI's definition of open source (you know, DFSG rebranded)?
And after that he can explain how the freedom is really for the source code and not for her!
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The new name sucks, but so did "OpenOffice.org" (at least going by the Ubuntu package names, they insisted on the .org being part of the name).
At least OpenOffice was something you could pronounce.
I'll agree - Libre Office sounds strange, but it is adventage - it makes brand stronger. And people will get used to it, if it will be good.
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"Libre" is probably better understood in Europe to mean "free" in its intended "free as in speech" sense.
That is probably true in Europe, but it definitely fails in the US. What I don't see is why the name has to be so damn literal. Firefox was never named "Libre Interent Browser" Google was never "Better Search Engine That Doesn't Totally Suck" OpenOffice at least wasn't that clunky and got the point across. This is a name by hackers for hackers. Why is that a good idea for a project with the mainstream reach of Firefo…