Re: Office 365 Opinions

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe LibreOffice is a fork from OpenOffice dating from Oracle's 
decision to start charging for OpenOffice?




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 :-)