On 2012/05/10 01:01, Rob Weir said:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The important thing is to maintain a generosity towards others and not to be 
>> drawn into argument with them about the pros and cons of their/our choices.  
>> The situation is likely to proceed to one of two directions: either the 
>> codebases and the features start to diverge dramatically, in which case they 
>> move away and any other product becomes sufficiently different that there 
>> need be no conflict, or there is some for of reconcilliation/amalgamation, 
>> in which case all have to work together, so the less aggravation that has 
>> arisen before that, the better.
>> It is a generous thing to be able to agree to differ.
> 
> But what about when their preference is that you don't exist at all?
> For example, when a LO leader comes onto the Apache list and says that
> he would like us to fail and that he wants to "put us out of our
> misery", then do we treat that as a mere "difference of opinion"?  I'm
> happy to be generous when it is a matter of taste, Coke versus Pepsi
> or whatever.  But when someone is denying our right to exist and
> taking active steps to cause our votes to fail, etc., then I think
> that is something else.

    Well, reading through this thread, I found I got the same nonsense,
from a leader of a forked project.  For me it is always OK to fork, from
either OpenOffice.org or Apache OpenOffice.  I sincerely wish them to
grow strong, whether they are LibreOffice, OOo4Kids, BrOffice, or
anything else.  Together we enrich the whole ecosystem.  That's why I
(and many people here) help our local Taiwan LibreOffice community, too,
as much as I can.  I figured it is nonsense, and not worthy of my time.
 If I do have spare time I would rather help the local LibreOffice
community than fight with nonsense from the troll.  So I ignored it.
Period.

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