On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Caio Tiago Oliveira <[email protected]>wrote:
> Ian, 05-09-2010 17:56: > > And perhaps if Go-OO harbors enough supporters, it may branch off >>> Oracle completely. >>> >> >> Possibly, but for true independence and a chance of competing it needs >> an income and I don't see much evidence of capability in generating it >> at a level that will compete with the resource input of Oracle. So the >> community is largely in Oracle's hands and will be for the foreseeable >> future. In reality it doesn't make much sense to worry about Oracle >> while it puts a lot of resource into development. If it stops doing that >> then there is nothing much to lose from forking. >> > > We don't need to fork that right now, but we should invest more on > attracting investments. That will make it easy if we have to fork in the > future and will help the project, anyway. > > I believe that some players will focus on online office suites and the > other won't help OOo if it's required to sign JCA/SCA. > Google, IBM, Novel both contribute to OOo, but each one could expend ten > times more, if that would benefite them. > > We should focus on certification, donations, etc., as ways of making it > easier to maintain the project without depending on some big player. > > Also there is this fixation we need to pay developers. Although I agree that the more complex parts of the code are really a pain to maintain and people should received a compensation for the boring tasks. I also think that the rest could be dependent from other factors. We can also not just think of making it profitable to Google or Novell but maybe bringing a channel which allow us for smaller companies to make money and empower them with a more structure framework to be able to make good money. At the Bizdev talk at OOoCon we talked about a Marketplace, same thin wg was mentioned by Italo at his Marketing talk taking Google's reseller channel as an example for Google Apps. However there are other things such as noticing what happened to SourceForge failed story with their Open Source marketplace (2007-200?). At the OOoES (Spanish NLC) we have also pulled out a small (now) network of consultants. It hasn't been actually that easy even with resources to be able to build more and better resources. However we are confident that could change as we go along by delivering premium content. In the end however is up to the network to really be able to sale themselves. -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org
