Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread Sam Ruby
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana sanj...@opensource.lk wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: I've been asking for reasons since my first e-mail to this list, but you didn't reply so far. So, if you could elaborate on that, I'd really

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 6:19 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Jun 5, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Richard S. Hall he...@ungoverned.org wrote: On 6/5/11 16:50, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Niall Pemberton niall.pember...@gmail.com

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread Davanum Srinivas
If IBM pulls a harmony, TDF can just use the Apache licensed code that's available and run with it. Here the problem currently is how to make things work if/when the podling gets accepted and folks start contributing, stick around for a long time with lots of good contributions from multiple

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread Shane Curcuru
At the risk of sounding naive, why do some people continue to believe that an Incubator list at Apache is a realistic way to get an answer about IBM's corporate strategy? I suppose given the community history it's certainly a controversial issue likely to get some sort of response, I just

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread Simon Phipps
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:24 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote on 06/05/2011 08:49:19 PM: = I read all that Rob. Nothing in there about the plan to continue creating, building and delivering OpenOffice.org on all the platforms and in all the

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread Andrew Rist
On 6/5/2011 5:38 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: I still think that's open for discussion. To my eyes it still makes a lot of sense to have Apache host the parts IBM (and maybe others, although their existence is exaggerated) need for their proprietary products, and then have TDF maintain a consumer

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread Phil Steitz
On 6/5/11 3:51 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/5/11 11:21 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have tried to follow as much as emails as

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 11:43 PM, Phil Steitz wrote: Agreed. I wish I had a clearer idea of what constitutes a good reason to reject an incubator proposal on principle, though - even just a good enough reason to reject this one. As long as there is some promise of building a community and IP / grant

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread Phil Steitz
On 6/5/11 10:16 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/5/2011 11:43 PM, Phil Steitz wrote: Agreed. I wish I had a clearer idea of what constitutes a good reason to reject an incubator proposal on principle, though - even just a good enough reason to reject this one. As long as there is some

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