On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Shane Curcuru <[email protected]> wrote: > > While I can certainly understand (in theory) trust issues from past OOo > participants about the new AOOo PPMC, I must admit I don't understand the > level of distrust I seem to see from some non-committers about the ASF as a > whole. >
I can only speak for myself, but, for better or worse, all I knew of Apache, prior to last June, was that it was a popular Web server and also home to a bunch of Java-related stuff. Since then, I've developed the feeling that ASF is to OOo what ISO is to OOXML: a well intentioned organization that is used/abused as a weapon in a corporate turf war. If I was a betting man, I would wager that, if anything, we will see a multi-millions line code dump (or a bunch of non-bisectable commits) from IBM that turn AOOo into a circa 2007 fork of OOo named Apache Symphony. At that point we will see if ASF hold IBM to the same standard than it held the Blusky podling. Norbert
