On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 14:19, Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Greg Stein wrote on 2011-06-05 20.03: > >>> That point has been repeaded over and over again, but basically you are >>> saying everyone "Do not set up your own foundation at all, we alreadyh >>> have >>> enough." >> >> I don't know that Robert B-D said that, or anybody else. *I* certainly >> said it, and strongly believe it. But that's just me :-) > > so, why don't the ASF, the Mozilla Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation and > the GNOME Foundation unite? :-)
Different goals. I actually helped in setting up the Eclipse Foundation :-P (and the Python Software Foundation, for that matter) MoFo exists to own MoCo. Eclipse is a consortium, rather than a charity. So of the group, it would be GNOME and ASF that are most similar. Danese could probably speak to why GNOME Foundation was set up. I dunno, but I do think its duplication is sad... > Sorry for the provocative question, I just wanted to state "But we already > have a foundation" is no good argument for me. However, I think the point I wasn't trying to make that argument. Just a generic statement about open source groups thinking it is all cool to have their own foundation. It isn't. Far from it. Django... Drupal... this that and the other. >... > This might not affect other topics, but honestly, I think the perception of > what already is in existence is not clear enough for many parties on this > list. :-) Hope I could shed some light on it... You very much did. Thank you! Cheers, -g --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
