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Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave
Elektroschock writes "In an unprecedented move with respect to other forks, Oracle asked the founders of the Document Foundation and LibreOffice to leave the OpenOffice.org Community Council. Apparently there is a conflict of interest, which concerns the Oracle employees."
uhm, yeah, I'm actually Romanian. My primary language is Romanian (duh) and I speak English fluently and a tad of French. I still think LibreOffice sounds gay (take that offended commenters above).
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The very same person who would call me out for using a term like "ghay" because homosexuals would be offended would not think twice about calling someone like me who is a conservative, constitution and founding Fathers leaning Republican a "Tea Bagger"
Generally speaking those more "liberal" only mean "open minided" when they want what they do to be accepted when it is outside of the cultural "norm". When someone who is more conservative would like something they do that is outside of the cultural norm accepted, liberals don't use the word "open minded" any more, instead they use terms like "fascist" and "raciest" to describe how I would chose to live my life.
There is no small amount of hypocrisy in how they go about their way. In congress when the Democrats held power, they wanted to put in a rule that would prevent the "minority party" from being able to bring things to the floor. Then when they became the minority party they said it was not fair to silence the minority and asked the the republicans would give up majority seats on comities so the minority would have an equal voice. Well the Republicans did it and were thus unable to accomplish many of the things they had promised they would try to do if they were elected. Then for not getting the job done, they lost the majority.
Do you think when the Democrats again became the majority party, they allowed Republicans an equal number of seats on the comities so that the minority voice would not be snuffed out? No way, they held the majority and they expected to wield all the power it could give them.
Whether you call them progressives, liberals, or democrats, they are only open minded when it favors them. Please don't take that the wrong way, there are exceptions to every rule. I know there are liberals out there who may disagree with me, and no matter if they had more or less power than me, believe we should all meet together on the same field by the same rules. For the most part, those are not the liberals who hold any real power.
And believe me, as someone who was born with a moderate speech impediment but a high IQ. I have spent a lifetime being called "retarded" behind my back and to my face and am pretty much told I have to deal with people using that phrase. It does not matter how much in my childhood I was taunted with it. It is acceptable to call things, situations and people retarded.
I have been stigmatized enough in my life and am old enough to remember when you could speak politically incorrect and not have to worry about what you said offending someone who was taller, shorter, lighter, darker, faster, slower, etc, etc, etc than you were. And what I have seen is the people who yell the loudest about it are the least likely to give you a break when they are being inconsiderate.
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I actually like the name LibreOffice more than OpenOffice. Also, a new name gives them a chance to shed the negative baggage that was associated with the OpenOffice name while still being able to point back to it for creditability.
Their dense inscrutable UI can make a terrible first impression a second time!
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