On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Rob Weir wrote on 2011-10-25 18:11: >> >> Sorry, but you build an incredible about of distrust in others if you >> express such irrational distrust in AOOo. I'd have extreme hesitation >> to work with anyone who exhibs such vehement distrust of an 11 year >> old open source foundation that produces 5 of the top 10 open source >> projects, and which has a stellar reputation in the industry, >> including its treatment of security vulnerabilities. > > where did I express distrust in AOOo? I was explaining what neutral means. > Is there anything wrong in the explanation of neutrality in this case? > > One could also say you express distrust to people who have been involved > with OpenOffice.org for nearly a decade. But insults like these lead to > nowhere. >
My point is that neutrality does not increase trust. You may say Apache is not neutral, but I say Apache is trusted in this industry in security matters, with security researchers, users and corporations, and this trust is far greater than any trust you will have with a new ad-hoc little security list that you create today, with ad hoc governance. I'm more concerned with trust than with neutrality. Users are more concerned with trust. Security reporters are more concerned with trust. And I recommend that you start being more concerned with trust, users and security. It is mind boggling that we're having a discussion about an important topic -- how we handle security vulnerabilities -- and the discussion is being led based entirely on non-security considerations, without hardly a mention of users, and instead dwelling on one party's paranoia. This does not make sense. -Rob > Florian > > -- > Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> > Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation > Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 > Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff >
