On 6/5/2011 5:30 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:44 PM, <robert_w...@us.ibm.com> wrote: >> Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote on 06/05/2011 02:21:01 >> PM: >> >>> >>> This proposal raises lots of questions, but the requirements for >>> entering the incubator are not high and so IMO don't need to be >>> answered before a vote. The only reason I believe for rejecting this >>> proposal would be because it would be in the best interests of the >>> community to not split the FOSS development and compete with >>> LibreOffice. >>> >> >> Not to state the obvious, but OOo was LGPL when LO split from it last >> year. If you look at the list of proposed committers, you will see names >> with openoffice.org addresses. The community is currently split. It has >> been for quite a while now. This predates this discussion and it predates >> LO. There was a split between Novell and Sun/Oracle years ago. Any >> analysis that does not acknowledge these critical facts is incomplete. The >> community is split today. > > I'm not disagreeing with you on this. But Oracle is shutting that down > and asking us to provide FOSS home for it and all I'm saying is why, > when there is already a good FOSS home in existence?
Because Oracle and TDF, in confidential negotiations, could not come to an agreement. And I think that's all that need be said on the matter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
