LibreOffice: OpenOffice.org Liberated

BBC America is not part of most basic cable packages. We have a mid-level package and we still don't have it. If we went whole hog for digital cable with HD (and we don't have an HD TV yet, so it's pointless) only then would we get BBC America. I suspect the number of people who really know Brit slang is fewer than you might think.

Skip to the LOo my darlin!

Don't forget that through the 70s and 80s, the best on PBS was recycled BBC shows.

Yes, Minister.....

Dave Allen at Large, Monty Python, The Two Ronnies...

We still see Are You Being Served around here.

Fawlty Towers was one of the all-time great comedies. (I think that was BBC.) Too bad they made only 12 episodes.

LOo jokes aside, Oracle bought Sun for the hardware business, Solaris, Java and MySQL. I don't think they're in the mood to throw resources at an office suite.

Mr. Bean FTW.

Maybe Vermont is different but a lot of folks i know around here are quite familiar with Brit slang and are perfectly able to understand me, whether im having a sly suck on a fag, dropping a brick in the loo, i do get some odd looks on occasion but its fun seeing some of the expressions on folks faces :)

Quoting:dropping a brick in the loo,

Which means British porcelain is much better than what we get in the States.

YBT

P.S. What we use bricks it's to reduce water usage, by putting one or two in the water cabinet. However, we would never think of using the brick you have in mind for that purpose.

MBT:

A jug (EDIT: filled with water) works as well as a brick, if you put a few stones in the bottom to weigh it down.

(All bad multi-cultural puns most definitely intended.)

gus,

If you insist on jugging it, why not fill it with water*? If you are an overly conservative type and fear the water will escape scuppering your conservation efforts, put a lid on it.

YBT

* With or without Stones to stem the flotation you seem to fear.

As far as I understood:

The Dutch OpenOffice company already existied before Sun made a free version of StarOffice, so therefore it's OpenOffice.org. Both LibreOffice and Oracle OpenOffice can be distinguished from the Dutch OpenOffice company, so there's no need to append "org" or a small o.

So, there's OOo in nomans-land - will be dead soon (while Oracle bricks [on] it?), LO and OOO. Not that hard.

MBT, correct as usual. I should have stated so explicitly, instead of assuming the reader understood. Edited to reflect this.

Quoting: [...] correct as usual

Me? I am torn, which is better? What are you drinking or are you on Crack? Perhaps it's your reading comprehension at fault, otherwise how can I understand such an addled remark?

So sober up and edit that comment before it is seen too widely*. I have my reputation to consider. How can you say that I know what I am talking about when I assiduously avoid factual basis to my conversations and assertions?

YBT * Or horrors, indexed.

hkwint: I wouldn't bet on OOo being "dead soon." I wouldn't bet against it either. It all depends on what value Oracle assigns to it. Unless, of course, you have some inside information you wish to share.

@Koriel: Years ago one of my coworkers was a recent British immigrant. I still remember the reaction he got when he said, "I could die for a fag." Then he realized the difference between the British and American meanings of the word and stammered out an explanation. It was clear some of the Americans did not know the British usage.

Caitlyn: Like most of the times, you're right.

I think Schrödinger would agree the faith of OOo is "undiceded" at this moment, because the box is still pretty much closed. Only after it opened - meaning after Oracle spoke out or their decisions show - we know if it's still alive or not.

Ken Starks (alias helios) had some inside information I believe, as how to Oracle was not going to do anything for OOo anymore. Like with most interesting news, I didn't bookmark it, so not sure where it went. But if neither Oracle nor the community is contributing to OOo, I'd say it's dying. Of course, we don't know if rumours are true though.

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So finally I collected some evidence TC is a bot, ahem.

A convincing bot, you must admit.

A most interesting bot with a gift for language.

Yeah, you're even better than Boten Anna!