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xperroni wrote: LibreOffice stealing its momentum.
LibreOffice happened because of assinine moves by Oracle. Some time after the LibreOffice fork was created Oracle threw-in the towel and "donated" OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation. But, it was too late, the damage was done. Oracle only has themselves to blame. Same with NetBeans. Oracle has a bad and extremely arrogant reputation.
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It's arguable that LibreOffice stole momentum from OpenOffice - free fall is still momentum 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Except that LibreOffice wouldn't have happened without Oracle's fvckup first. Thus no decline and no momentum stealing would have occurred. Hence OpenOffice's decline is primarily linked to Oracle and not LibreOffice.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I didn't put the joke icon, my bad: I was saying that Oracle made OpenOffice fall out of the window and LibreOffice stole momentum from its freefall, i.e. avoiding that OpenOffice splattered down on the concrete.
I admit it was a convoluted joke, surely lost in translation.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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ah, totally agreed. And, yes, I completely missed that... 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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xperroni wrote: I like it better than Eclipse
Isn't that like saying you prefer horse sh*t over cow sh*t?
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Despite all the phones and tablets out there, Texas Instruments' graphing calculators continue to survive. The company's latest classroom tool even turns them into a device that can teach kids coding and engineering. Back in my day, the only thing productive you could plug into a computer was 0.7734
I actually didn't own one until mid-way through college, actually.
There was also that other one that teenage boys would use.
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Microsoft has announced that it will soon start blocking outdated versions of Adobe Flash Player from running in Internet Explorer on Windows 7. Why? What's wrong with running old versions of Flash?
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Well that is going to be a big pain for security researchers then.
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That's curious. I thought they had already stopped supporting W7.
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Big news for the 3 people using Internet Explorer on Windows 7
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Alongside iOS 10, tvOS 10, and watchOS 3, Apple today officially released Swift Playgrounds, a new app aimed at teaching both children and adults how to code through simple interactive coding exercises. Learning how to program: fingerpaint edition
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In its next version, the open source database addresses long-standing issues like Unicode support and the app's more accident-prone innards. I'd put a joke here in Unicode, but I think the publishing tool strips those characters out
At least the last time I tried it. ℓ€╤'§ †Ʀ¥
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This has been rumored for some time, but it now seems that Microsoft’s latest iteration of online community is live. Because TechNet was locked and they couldn't update it?
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Adblock Plus is launching a new service that... uh, puts more ads on your screen. But does it then block them?
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Hey Kent. Why you post such stirring news. Don't you know that CP works with Adverts too. Are you suggesting to use the blocker? 
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No, I'm suggesting Chris put some ads in the ad blocker 
TTFN - Kent
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You beat me.
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Message Closed
modified 21-Nov-20 21:01pm.
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Leandro Taset wrote: Someone should match some (preferably all) advertisers and lawyers together, ...
and then close the room, make it hermetic and let them consume all oxigen. The world would be a better place
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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My ironometer just exploded.
Those guys beggar belief.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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“To be or not to be. That is the question.” That is also the text that Monkey J typed out using a brain implant to control a computer cursor. 999,999 to go and we'll have Shakespeare!
Still writes faster than G.R.R. Martin
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Some will likely say better too.
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