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The OT trivia line forms on the right. Please take a number.The OT trivia line forms on the right. Please take a number.Posted Jan 18, 2013 5:15 UTC (Fri) by ghane (subscriber, #1805)In reply to: The apology line forms on the left. Please take a number. by rcweir Parent article: A discordant symphony
I was a user of StarOffice, then bought licences from Sun, then used OO, and now LO. I have no technical or legal brilliance to share.
However, looking at the second article quoted above: http://lwn.net/Articles/532694/
"Please remember that Italian have invented fake donations back in the
If it *had* been created in AD 315, it would not have been a fake, would it? That's the whole point.
And now, back to your regular programming ...
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The OT trivia line forms on the right. Please take a number. Posted Jan 18, 2013 10:35 UTC (Fri) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]
It could still have been a fake even if the false document dates back to 315 (which we can find no trace of and nor could people a millennium ago for whom this was a more pressing matter). Forging a contemporary document is a far more ordinary activity that forging a centuries old one, but it's the same crime, just with more risk of detection because eye-witnesses to the facts will still be alive to testify.
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