Le Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:48:26 -0500, "Alexandro Colorado" <[email protected]> a écrit :
> > On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:22:36 -0500, John McCreesh > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Pablo Barrera wrote: > >> Hi all from Buenos Aires > >> Some Linux portals start to publish news about the adquisition of > >> Sun by > >> IBM, here in buenos aires, I would like to know if it is time to > >> wait the > >> adquisition, because all community related issues, including > >> opensolaris, > >> mysql too wil have a moment to unificate projects around two > >> companies. Wha > >> could be the next steps?, the silence on the lists, seems to be > >> about this > >> fusion, or probably i´m wrong. > >> Regards > >> Pablo Barrera > >> > > As Charles said id his blog recently: > > > > "I have been asked this several times already this week, so let me > > clarify something: I do not work for Sun, nor for IBM and I do not > > know anything else about the buyout rumour than what the press > > says." > > > > John > > What John said is a fair reply however, we could always think about > pushing again the option of having an OpenOffice.org Foundation > since management hopefully will go away. Alexandro, although we even do not know wether this buyout will actually occur (these days it seems the whole story has gotten cold again) the very first three questions we would have to ask ourselves and Sun/IBM/others would not be about a foundation. It would be about the following: - who owns the code - who pays for the core of the development and how much - what is the governance of the project. The second question is very important. If we cut the funding then OOo is just dead because no one will be able to maintain the codebase and we'll have to start from scratch. Which is to say OOo will be no more at least for some years. In order to have a foundation you need the main copyright holder to agree to put the IP in it, an then you need to secure funding and people there. The rest is details. As you can see we barely stand at the beginning of all this. Best, Charles. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
