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As a Latin American and EU citizen, all I can tell you is... this is not new, get used to it!
Also, bear in mind that "US government" is not equivalent to "US people".
Hopefully this leads to people being able to put their children through Bokanovsky Process so that we no longer have to deal with mental diseases like Alzheimer's.
Occupy Wall Street in the beginning was the globalization of European Protests... I mean, Greece and Spain were on fire, with people fighting the police on the streets, many months before anything in America.
Exactly. Libero, using the unaltered latin root: liber, not libre.
What is the difference between LiberOffice and LibreOffice? They are both ugly names, but at least the first can be pronounced by anyone. You can even market it with a picture of the Statue of Liberty and sell it as the American Dream fullfiller... but nah, they stuck to their ideology...
Anything pronounceable in English would be great. They could have chosen a compromise like "LiberOffice", or anything. But the name LibreOffice could only have been chosen by people with absolute zero marketing experience.
You got it wrong. Your parent did not assert anything, it is therefore impossible to prove him wrong. He simply stated 3 facts. And actually, the OP has had 2 counter-examples that provet him wrong.
Do consider taking an online course on debate and argumentation.
Gmail was very successful with it's invitation system: it was elitist, and everyone ached to get in. But putting an invitation system into G+ was devastating. If the objective of a Social Network is to get in touch with everyone at any time, it's a very idiot move to restrict the creation of new accounts for no reason. They basically released a product that was useless, because they made sure there would be nobody to communicate with.
This could be understandable if it was their first shot at social networking; but Wave had the same problem and they did not learn from it.