Dennis, some of your recent replies (including the one I'm replying to) break threading (at least in Mutt), could you look into that please?
(The mails appear in the same thread, as a new reply to the first post of the thread.) Thanks. Dennis E. Hamilton wrote on Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 16:29:02 -0700: > They can move and take everything with them but the hardware, the domain > name, and the trademark. > > That's actually quite a lot. I don't have it much better with the hosting > service that now hosts my public goodies. (I have the domain name and the > trademark. I also have current backups of everything and it is easy to move > - that's why I use static pages.) > > Of course, I have a lease on the domain name. It is mine only within that > limitation. > > Not that there is not a separation cost and serious disruption. But do we > need to mention this at all? > > Normally, when someone wants me on their hardware and software, and to be my > domain-name holder, I receive a nice offer, not an offer I can't refuse. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 11:24 > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and > volunteers > > [ ... ] > > If you do not own the hardware, the domain name and the trademark, > then you are operating at the pleasure of those who do own these > things. That might feel like autonomy, but that is illusory. If you > want to see what autonomy looks like, look at http://www.oooforum.org/ > > The thing to gain some appreciation of is that the unit of decision > making at Apache is the project. There is a single group of project > committers and a single (P)PMC. No one "owns" any service within the > project. No one has exclusive freedom of action. No one can act on > their own without risk of a veto. We don't fragment and > compartmentalize the project into autonomous functions that are immune > for discussion, consensus building, vetos and votes from other project > members. > > [ ... ] >
