As expected, my first attempt at a Family Tree for Star/Open/LibreOffice has resulted in some useful feedback (thank you), so here is a new version of the chart (and I suspect it may not be the last revision…).
When a 16 year old German started work on a word processor in 1984, I bet he had little idea of the software dynasty he was founding. At one stage there were at least six distinct descendants, all claiming to offer something special to computer users looking for an alternative to Microsoft’s Office software. For [...]
It seems every new piece of technology brings a new problem. When we decorated our living room recently we bought a new Panasonic flat screen telly and a blu-ray disc player, thereby introducing us to the wonderful world of HD TV and being able to see every hair on the polar bear in Frozen Planet (yes, [...]
If computers have so much memory, why are they so good at losing things? Say you are working on a great masterpiece “War and Peace Revisited” over several weeks. Why is it that every time you do ‘File -> Save’, the computer immediately forgets everything you have done, except the very latest version? It doesn’t [...]
During my time working in IT in big corporates, I would occasionally come across places where the use of open source software was ‘against company policy’ for one reason or another. I refrained from asking them to investigate their firewalls, routers, digital cameras, printers, photocopiers, etc. etc., but I did occasionally ask them which webservers [...]
The Document Foundation meet their fundraising target for LibreOffice in just eight days!
If ever there was a class of software crying out for an open file format which any program could use, it must be music composition software. This is how music works!
