OpenOffice.org has been forked

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Fri Oct 1 15:29:52 BST 2010


On 01/10/2010 22:27, Christopher Chan wrote:
> David Sanders wrote:
>    
>> On 1 October 2010 12:08, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>>      
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Am I not following the discussion correctly, or is it just that
>> there's some confusion over the idea of having two Latin words with
>> the same spelling?
>>
>> Libre for LibreOffice is clearly in the sense of "freedom" in Romance
>> languages, not as in "book".
>>
>>      
> Who is contesting libre versus libris? :-P
>    

To the music of that song whose name I cannot remember: I'm not!

Well.....only under duress...... :-) .

BC

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