Comment Re:I'm shocked. (Score 1) 589
... You had to assign copyright to Sun/Oracle,
Not quite correct. You had to agree to share the copyright, in other words the contributor and Sun (now Oracle) shares the copyright. Neither has exclusive rights.
... You had to assign copyright to Sun/Oracle,
Not quite correct. You had to agree to share the copyright, in other words the contributor and Sun (now Oracle) shares the copyright. Neither has exclusive rights.
Technically, remember, that OOo is basically a dressing up and improving of Star Office, started by a German company, so if you want to attribute 90% of the work to someone, I'd put it there, but I don't think, at this point, you can contribute 90% to one entity.
That may have been correct at version 1.0 of OO.o, but was less so by 2.0. Version 3.0 involved an almost complete rewrite. The current OO.o code looks quite different from the original StarOffice.
Granted, Star Office, both program and company, were bought by Sun, but a lot of the work was done well before Sun stepped in and bought it.
See above. Was true, has not been true for several years.
i'm not sure how tacking an english word onto a Spanish one makes sense.
It's French, not Spanish.
I actually like the name LibreOffice more than OpenOffice.
I don't, and I doubt whether many non-OSS purists/evangelists will either.
According to the wikipedia article on the concorde, it was actually quieter than many other models in service at the time.
I can confirm that.
At one time I lived directly under the flight path to Darwin Airport (in Australia). That airport is also the local Air Force base and runway, so we had not only Boeing 747s and other passenger planes flying directly overhead at an altitude of less than 500 feet, but we also had Air Force Mirages on the same flight path.
During the time I lived there, the Concorde visited, landing and taking off twice (or it might have been 3 times). I'll tell you straight, the Concorde made less noise on take-off than the Jumbo (and they were much quieter than the Mirages).
What's a good 2nd degree to get?
Nursing.
A good old-fashioned, generalized Bachelor of Arts. You'll be able to apply for many more jobs with that.
Or join the Masons...
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"