On Monday 18 Oct 2010 16:58:40 M. Fioretti wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 04:48:23 AM +0200, Ramon Sole > > ([email protected]) wrote: > > Both communities will be able to collaborate in tons of things, but > > the project leaders can't share responsabilities in both projects. > > If so, why to have two Communities? You can't fork a open source > > project and keep your responsabilities in the original one! It's > > astonishing just trying to do it. > > Thanks Ramon. You've summed up better than I could the two reasons that > (without me being even completely aware of them) made me ask the > question that started this thread. > > I was surprised seeing people who started TDF continuing to keep their > OOo hats (1). And much more surprised to see all these "surprised" > reactions to Oracle's "resignment" actions. I mean, I would have said > that if there's anything surprising in that is ONLY the fact that it > took so long. I'd assume that it took Oracle managers no more than 20 > seconds after the initial TDF announcement to decide they wanted to do > it, and Oracle lawyers much less than 20 days to decide if they could > get away with it. > > I really don't know if there are other people today that still have > any official role in both communities, OOo and TDF (or that have > official roles only in OOo but have formally, publicly approved > TDF). But if there are such people, I'm very interested to hear if > they plan to resign before being "resigned", and above all their > general opinion about what Ramon said and on how to handle the > OOo/Oracle <-> LibO/TDF relation in the future. > > thanks, > M. Fioretti > http://stop.zona-m.net > > (1) the intrinsical *validity* of the reasons that caused the creation > of TDF are a totally separate issue, at least for me!
I fully support the ideals of a foundation and have since day one 20001013 I hope that OOo and Oracle become part of the Foundation However, for the foreseeable future and barring any dramatic actions that make it untenable, I will remain firmly part of the OOo team and continue to promote OOo first and foremost, if people ask, and they have, I tell them all I know, but I do it as a OOo's representative in NZ and I make that clear. To me a fork is a good thing, it allows choice, it ensures the longevity of the OOo code and any publicity is good publicity :) Cheers GL -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Open Technologies) www.theingots.org -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
