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Having trouble understanding why you thought it was acceptable to steal their business name, and concept, and software application design.

Would you call a competing word processor "Libre Word"?

Is it acceptable to just copy their everything if you just add the word libre?




>Would you call a competing word processor "Libre Word"?

You don't know about LibreOffice, really? Your post is so ridiculously ironic I'm having trouble determining if it's satire.


How about "Google Word", "GoogleWord", or "Rosetta Stones"?


A lot of FOSS projects were sued for these things, see GAIM/Pidgin, etc. Newcomers should understand that is a copyright violation.


Trademark, not copyright.


They call the package LibreOffice though... So... Yeah?




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