From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 28 12:27:11 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22DB23D4 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:27:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C87DE1AE5 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:27:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop3.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop3.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 11C1427325 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:27:01 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <52973695.4070208@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:27:01 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130530 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: math "formulae" using libreoffice References: <20131120000851.GA8007@ethic.thought.org> <20131120014303.7eb2bd44.freebsd@edvax.de> <20131120014134.GA9893@ethic.thought.org> <20131121001853.GA18522@ethic.thought.org> <20131121211010.fd168924.freebsd@edvax.de> <20131121234959.GB28395@ethic.thought.org> <20131122011153.fc81837d.freebsd@edvax.de> <20131122005933.GA3297@ethic.thought.org> <20131122022650.2636ef22.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20131122022650.2636ef22.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:27:11 -0000 On 11/22/13 11:26, 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. That > was the time when LibreOffice was forked. Today, LibreOffice > is _the_ office suite per se. Not to start a war, but it went StarOffice as a free product (up to about 5 or 6, I think), then Sun made it a paid product and forked OpenOffice as an open source alternative (good ole Sun); then Oracle got involved and Libreoffice was forked with some of the original devs walking with it and overhauling it in the process, and finally with OpenOffice finally abandoned to the wolves by Oracle at a later date and rescued by the Apache incubator project not so many years ago now. > > 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). > I believe this was when Oracle staged a takeover, and spelled the beginning of the end of support for OpenOffice.