Hi Louis,
Am 15.10.2010 18:05, schrieb Louis Suárez-Potts:
I guess then we disagree. For I see OpenOffice.org as quite distinct
and different from Oracle, just as it was different from Sun, and
just as it differs from any one company. OOo is a community of
differences and likes.
I think, we agree, that people within Sun / Oracle have been working
hard within the last 10 years did contribute massively to
OpenOffice.org. At the same time they were working on StarOffice, what
now became "Oracle Open Office". People inside Sun often have manager
role in the company and are project lead at OpenOffice.org - that's
quite normal. We lived with this for several years and never discussed
about comflict of interests, although all those people worked for a
commercial entity that had own goals - and a free software project at
the same time.
So now, that Charles (and many others) felt, that it would be worth to
bring the community into the next decade and work on the idea of an
independent foundation .. we remove them from their roles because they
have a conflict of interest?
Wouldn't it be logical to argue that Oracle staff also has a conflict of
interest?
To me this sounds rather nonsense - we all can work on one project.
But it is hard to work together, when one party of the game starts to
remove people from their roles or excludes them from discussion. Why do
mails by some council members need to be moderated to disc...@council?
I did not see a request for this, the council did not agree to remove
some members and they also did not step back. So how are these actions
justified?
regards,
André
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