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throwaweetoday at 1:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

Can you really take over a project anybody can fork? Freedom is just a name change away.


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homebrewertoday at 1:28 PM

I'm pretty sure most "normies" who are at all aware of what MS Office is, and what, if any, of its alternatives are, still use OpenOffice and think that it is the no-cost office suite. LibreOffice already has problems with brand recognition, last thing we need is another fork.

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NetMageSCWtoday at 1:56 PM

That will just create another dead fork that no one works on.

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