Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

[Geoffrey Mendelson]

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel
On May 13, 2020, 10:48 AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>, wrote:
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> At the time IBM really wanted to continue developing its own fork of
> OpenOffice and for that they did not want OpenOffice to continue with
> the LibreOffice fork, that already existed (and had a license that would
> prevent them from making a priprietary fork).
>
> That is the most probably cause for Oracle to move OpenOffice to Apache.
> Stallman wasn't really involved with LibreOffice at the time.
>
> You are guessing, sorry. While Ellison did not reveal his decision process, he is very pro Israel.
>
> Stallman wasnt involved because the FSF did not have control of OO and it was not covered by the GPL. Was the FSF interested in taking it over, no one has ever said officially, but there was plenty of people asking for it and speculation that it was going to happen.
>
> As for proprietary forks, the owners of Asterisk did exactly that. They sold a proprietary license to IBM for $10 million, screwing the people who contributed most of the code who did so because it was GPL.
>
> As for Linux Mint, you are welcome to "forgive and forget", I am not.
>
> Geoff
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