Hi Daniel, Daniel Armando Rodriguez wrote on 22/05/2020 23:33: > El 2020-05-22 17:26, Cor Nouws escribió:
>> It would be good to hear what you think of today's board meeting, and >> what has been presented there about community health and ecosystem. >> (Well, we tried to chat later, but kitchen duties were calling me ;) ) > > What I think is no one can get such answer from TDF channel, period. I understand what you mean, sure. I have no idea about that conversation in a whole, so can't judge. But at least it's a fair representation of the status quo at that moment, from that point of view. >> That is a reasonable possible way of looking at it, for sure. >> TDF's mission speaks about "software made available for everyone .. >> freely and without restrictions". So indeed you can read that as >> 'binaries for business use without payment', but just as reasonable as >> 'code for all individuals without restrictions'. Or maybe even >> interpretations in between :) > > No one is talking of the first, and I'm reading it over and over again > with different wording. That is what happens: depending on ... whatever, you get a different reading. Maybe I got your words wrong. Then sorry for that. But the ideas about free binaries for all use are there. So it's something we cannot ignore. >> So that's the good thing for primary the board, but if needed the whole >> community: our freedom to look at what is really wise to do for TDF's >> mission. >> Maybe the Ecosystem & Sustainability presentation gives some good input >> to further talk about that aspect of how our world looks. So lets do >> that :) > > If TDF offer a product for free, and states the commercial suport is up > the ecosystem companies what's the problem? > Whoever is looking for such support will knock their doors. No one else then we bear responsibility to respect the statues. "... The foundation furthers a sustainable, independent and meritocratic community which develops Free / Libre and Open Source Software based on open standards through international collaboration." So please let's investigate how it works out in practice ;) Cheers, Cor -- Cor Nouws, member Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint GPD key ID: 0xB13480A6 - 591A 30A7 36A0 CE3C 3D28 A038 E49D 7365 B134 80A6 mobile : +31 (0)6 25 20 7001 skype : cornouws blog : cor4office-nl.blogspot.com jabber : cor4off...@jabber.org -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
