----- Original Message ---- > From: Gianluca Turconi <[email protected]> > Il 20/10/2010 5.46, M. Fioretti ha scritto: > > The real question was "why didn't the TDF founders who have/had > > official roles in OOo publicly resign from those roles on Sept 28th, > > one second BEFORE announcing the birth of TDF? Would'nt it have been > > much more proper, considering that creating TDF is basically saying in > > public "the way Oracle is handling OOo sucks so much that we can't > > take it anymore"? Why all this surprise now?" > > Formally, and form is important in this matter, TDF *will be* a new legal >entity that Oracle could want to join. And an offer in such sense has been >made. > An official answer is still missing. > Among gentlemen, any question needs an answer, doesn't it?
Perhaps there is another issue at play here. Yes, Oracle was invited to contribute to TDF; but the current discussion on TDF membership and documents on-line seem to forbid organizations. So Oracle would not be able to join TDF, where it could join VESA, EFF, or any number of other organizations out there. Perhaps that is part of the problem; after all, Oracle just spent several billion dollars buying Sun - at least part of which would have been for OOo and all its assets. Perhaps timing could have been better. $0.02 Ben -- 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
