OpenOffice.org has been forked

[Jan Claeys]

Op vrijdag 01-10-2010 om 13:24 uur [tijdzone +1000], schreef Basil
Chupin:
> On 01/10/2010 03:48, Martin Webster wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 18:00 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     > Sounds Spanish????
> >>>
> >>>     LibreOffice sounds French to me.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I have a printing plate which prints "Ex Libris" to be pasted into 
> >> the books which I own.
> >>
> >> "Ex Libris" comes from Latin - "from the books or library...".
> >>
> >> "Canta Libre" means "Song book" or "Book of Songs" but the base
> word 
> >> is from Latin.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre
> 
> The Desk Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Foreign Words 
> Phrases, etc., -
> 
> 
> ex libris.  [L.]  From [among] the books [of]: an inscription in a
> book followed by the author's name. 

http://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/liber

Basically, as an adjective it means "free", as a substantive it means
"book" (there are also 2 other meanings, but they aren't really related
to this discussion, and are pronounced differently anyway).

(And I think it's used as an adjective here, but you can ask The
Document Foundation to be sure...)


-- 
Jan Claeys