Re: Remediation ...

2011-06-09 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Rob, In the deluge of drivel I lost this gem in your response to my scepticism about how quickly you could provide a binary release: On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 10:31 -0400, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: But one thing not to lose track of is that Symphony has done IP remediation at many

RE: Remediation ...

2011-06-09 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Noel, On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:13 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: I heard about this, myself, in some specific detail very recently. I will leave disclosure to the relevant parties, but while it may or may not be an issue for you ... I rest my case about FUD. It seems hard for me to

Re: Remediation ...

2011-06-09 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Sam, On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:54 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: The net of all of this is that there will need to be a substantial public aspect to this entire discussion. Yes, I will probably have some private discussions with ASF lawyers over time over this matter, but I can't see any way that

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-06 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jim, On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 16:14 -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote: certainly don't help. It just reinforces a perceived division as well as almost forcing the other side to take a defensive stance. Hey ho; I see my name being taken intravenously ;-) so the longer quote from a private

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Rob, On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 21:26 -0400, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Finally, I think we're exaggerating the difficulty of getting out a release of OpenOfice. LibreOffice did it very quickly. And so did IBM with Symphony. This is not rocket science. I am impressed by your

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Ross, On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 12:09 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: However, I do have a binding vote here and therefore I have a couple of questions for you: .. Are the goals of the TDF the same as the goals of this proposal to the Apache Software Foundation. I would say they are