I have some disagreements with some of these statements, but I am a guest here. I would like to answer queries and concerns, rather than attempt to change opinions. In other words, I don't see a good way to respond to this, if that's what you are seeking.
Cheers, -g On Jun 5, 2011 10:16 AM, "Simos Xenitellis" <simos.li...@googlemail.com> wrote: >... > What can the Apache Foundation provide to OpenOffice? > 1. You start with zero community and you alienate the LibreOffice community. > 2. You will start building a community at some point in the future in > some unknown way. > 3. You are developers and can currently only deal with developer needs. > 4. Your infrastructure is based on Subversion (SVN) which will make it > difficult > for other to share code. Git is not even in the immediate plans. > 5. You are happy to get going with 20-30 core developers. > 6. The Apache Foundation hosts over 150 projects and I fail to see > any important user-centric software like OpenOffice. > > The essential need for the Apache Foundation involvement in this appears to be > so that IBM can continue to offer a proprietary product, IBM Lotus Symphony, > License Agreement at http://pastebin.com/uqbUTRg5 > > Is IBM is trying to replicate what Sun/Oracle had with StarOffice, > putting just enough resources > for their own needs in order to ship their product? > > The Linux kernel is an amazing piece of software that it used in 92% > of Top500 supercomputers, > all sort of servers, mobile phones, most TVs and routers. > And still, there is a single Linux kernel project thanks to the > copyleft license. > Everyone works on Linux because they cannot keep away their own contributions; > they have to share them with the community. > Even the ARM architecture, where each ARM licensee went their own way, > is going to get its cleanup. > Because the code for all of them is already in the Linux kernel repository. > > IBM makes money out of Linux by providing services. And IBM is even a > top contributor to the Linux kernel. > Would IBM hypothetically prefer to have the Linux kernel developed > under the Apache Foundation? > > OO/LO are in this critical point where they can repeat the Linux > copyleft success story > and help ODF dominate the document formats. > > OO/LO is a complicated piece of code and will probably require big > architectural changes. > Having an Apache OpenOffice and a LibreOffice will slow down progress > in major changes. > > Simos > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
