On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 16:55 +0100, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > Hirano-San,
> 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. I agree, it is far better to have two clearly separate foundations. It is also better to have both independent of each other and to have a democratic structure so that members vote for a committee, one person one vote and the committee acts on behalf of the members. The members should all be individuals and clearly supportive of the aims of the foundation putting these before all other considerations. Whether or not this is achievable or Utopia is not certain. I have rather more hope for ODF than for OOo on that score but I would like to be proved wrong. > 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. Seems a very strange way of doing things. A foundation for add ons with the bureaucracy of the current OOo contribution mechanism seems to me to be the worst of both worlds. > 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. The danger of ignoring the NY meeting is that they just go ahead and do it and sideline community interests. Personally, I don't think that is in the corporates' best interests and they aren't stupid so if I can see that, they probably can too. Only time will tell for certain, but this has been on the cards for about 6 months so its not too much of a surprise - well at least I'm not surprised :-) Regards, -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
