On Jun 5, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Richard S. Hall <he...@ungoverned.org> wrote: >> On 6/5/11 16:50, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Niall Pemberton >>> <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> IMO the only negative thing then about LibreOffice is the copyleft >>>> license - everything else about them is great. When deciding whether >>>> to accept OO we should consider whether that and facilitating BigCos >>>> interests is worth splitting the FOSS community. >>>> >>>> I am considering voting -1 to this proposal for those reasons. >>> >>> Thanks for expressing my feelings so well, Niall! >> >> I'll lend a voice to the contrary. >> >> I can't see why splitting a community should be a factor in entry to the >> incubator. Just about every new open source community is trying to pull away >> developers from another community doing similar stuff. That's the nature of >> the beast. > > True, but when its essentially the same software, rather than > different software solving the same problem? If I proposed a new > project that was a fork of the HTTP project, how would that go down?
If you proposed a new project to implement the HTTP server in Java and got a community around it I'd vote +1. I wouldn't join because it wouldn't scratch any itch I have but I wouldn't stand in the way. > >> For me, getting the OOo code fully available under AL is reason enough to +1 >> it as far as I'm concerned...if I were on the IPMC... :-) > > License is important, but thats not all the ASF is about. Community is > important too. I respect you're right to vote however you wish but if > all its down to is license then I'm not sure. I care about end users. If my employer wanted to build a product that required ODF and was going to be delivered to a desktop I am 100% sure I would not be able to use LibreOffice. They would happily consume Apache Office. Community is important to me, but only in the sense that a successful community can be built here. Ralph --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
