> And finally, whether it would make any sense from the technical point of view 
> for LibreOffice contributors to even try to participate in OOo at ASF depends 
> very much on what actually ends up there, and in what direction it is taken 
> by the presumed main driving force, IBM. For all we know, it might be that 
> the code that is eventually dumped in ASF's SVN (!) is a subset that doesn't 
> even build, and then IBM starts adding its own hitherto proprietary stuff 
> including build mechanisms that makes it into a completely different beast 
> than what we are used to. I suspect lots of Java is involved, and that is not 
> necessarily that popular around here. As if understanding and using the "old" 
> OOo build mechanisms which have been somewhat adapted at LO wasn't hard 
> enough.

Good point, Tor. Is the source code available somewhere already?
I wouldn't join any Open Source project if I can't see the source code first :)

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