Hi,
Am 18.10.2010 00:04, schrieb Ariel Constenla-Haile:
Because by reading http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2010-September/000002.html I count 5 from Novell and 1 from RedHat among the "Present" and "Invited".
I have been invited to the next meetings (but being away at a customer I could not attent).
I do not buy that Novell and RedHat (add Google and Canonical) do not have commercial interests in this.
Indeed they have. But they use LibreOffice as base for their products - e.g. Novell did not dicdate wht document icons or branding LibreOffce has to use. I'm not naive - if there were no commercial interest from contributing parties at all, we had hardly any larger sponsors.
What power has this "LibreOffice technical group", how it was elected, what rules they follow, and how is this group under the control of the "governing entity that is independent from such interests", is no clear to me.
This tech group is an informal group as the moment. Some of the technical discussion had been initiated by other people at TDF (e.g. windows packaging, BrOffice packaging ...) other topics have been reviewed or partially reverted by the Steeering Committee (e.g. amount of patches to include in baseline).
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