Re: Office 365 Opinions

[Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/12/2013 7:23 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
> I believe LibreOffice is a fork from OpenOffice dating from Oracle's
> decision to start charging for OpenOffice?

OpenOffice is an Apache project now.  It still is cost-free.  The
LibreOffice fork was over, er, creative differences.  LibreOffice is
probably going to get features faster than OpenOffice, but they each
have different interoperability issues with Microsoft Office.
  --buck

> On 12/12/2013 1:58 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
> > The term 'libre' is frequently used in open source context.   It's a
> > French and Spanish word that means free, as in "freedom" (rather than
> > "free" as in cost.)
> >
> > This has been a constant source of discussion in the open source
> > communities, where "free" is supposed to mean "free as in freedom", but
> > it's frequently interpreted as "no cost."
> >
> > In fact, one of the most common acronyms for open source software is
> > FLOSS which stands for "Free/Libre Open Source Software"
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/12/2013 1:29 PM, CRPence wrote:
> > >      FWiW the term /libre/ presumably having etymological origin with
> > > /libertas/ is akin to /freedom/ and /unconstrained/ so the full name
> > > LibreOffice with "Office" included, has an intended implication.  And to
> > > be clear, while the ability to obtain the source may be no-cost, the
> > > implication of freedom is surely not solely with regard to cost, even if
> > > with /word play/ it does; almost surely, mostly the term was chosen to
> > > imply freedom /from/ the proprietary MS Office software :-)