Hirano-San, thank you (and also to Sophie) for relaying this discussion here and inside your communities. I encourage every other NLP lead to do it! What I'd like to say is that I chose not to go to New York because I felt that (not knowing Louis would be there at that time) I had no real interest to go to a meeting that has been organized (by IBM at first) while ignoring the community and asking questions that imho are interesting really big corporations but not much the community. I chose not go as not to endorse or to bring any legitimity to this meeting. I now realize that if I had been there I would have express pretty different views from the ones of Louis, who, as far as I've understood, speak only for himself. Actually, his message, although necessary and useful, does not express my views on the topic at all. Imagine Louis and myself expressing contrary opinions in public while in NYC: this would have been the best way to make us look (and the community with us) like fools! Since I'd like to answer Louis' post, I'd like to say that the question of an OpenDocument Foundation is important, but we should not (and I think we pretty much all agree with that) consider this as an excuse to "forget" or to let the question of an OOo foundation in the background. ODF makes heads turn and IBM, Sun, others are swimming around it -and us, for that matter- like sharks. I'm sure we can find a way to work and live with them but apparently we're not there. So while the "scenario A" is acceptable, it imho does not answer the question which is about an ODF foundation. Remember that OOo does not own the ODF. Remember that ODF, among many other things, creates the necessary conditions for a truly free market of office suites, and in this, OOo, SO, KOffice, Corel, TextMaker, and others compete while using, or planning to use the ODF. Hence absorbing or tying OOo to an ODF foundation does not make sense. As for the scenario "C", let me express, just like Sophie did, my complete astonishment. I talked a lot about a foundation for OOo in Koper/Capodistria, and then I talked a lot about the same topic off and on list to many people; all in all, lots of people talked to lots of others. But we didn't talk about the foundation described by Louis. It simply falls short of many expectations, and the whole point (add-on foundation) is weird and was never debated.
I encourage everybody to discuss this topic as this is really important, crucial for us, actually, and would like to wish Louis good luck for the NYC meeting. Best Regards, Charles-H. Schulz. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
