Re: [libreoffice-users] Question Concerning your product

On 12/21/2011 08:08 PM, Mike Watson wrote:
> I am considering downloading your product to avoid having to buy Microsoft Office.  But I have a 
> question about your product.  On your Features page you said that the LGPL public license could be 
> hacked by the user.  What does that mean?  Does it mean that anyone can hack it?  Please reply 
> whenever you can. Thank you for your time.                                   
I believe that what you're seeing is the fact that LO is "open source," 
which means that the code is
available to anyone who wants it, and therefore can be 
modified--"hacked," if you will--by anyone
sufficiently savvy to do so.  It does NOT mean that the program you 
download and install in your
system has been modified or hacked, so long as you get it thru the 
LibreOffice website or thru your
Linux distribution's repository.  But if someone wants to put in some 
extra feature, and is smart
enough to do so, he can, unlike with the Microsoft product, whose code 
is kept highly secret.
HTH--doug

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