Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-07 Thread Cor Nouws
Noel J. Bergman wrote (07-06-11 02:03) Michael Meeks: I do not believe the ASF is likely to provide a good home for the OO.o project in the long run. You: I agree; you draw the same inference that I do: he means that a non-copyleft license is the reason for (predicted eventual) failure. Is

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-06 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jim, On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 16:14 -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote: certainly don't help. It just reinforces a perceived division as well as almost forcing the other side to take a defensive stance. Hey ho; I see my name being taken intravenously ;-) so the longer quote from a private

RE: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Michael, Conclusion: I do not believe the ASF is likely to provide a good home for the OO.o project in the long run. Supporting statements: They are sufficiently confident and comfortable with their model that attempting to negotiate over changing any core aspect of it (such as the

RE: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-06 Thread Allen Pulsifer
Noel, I think your labels Conclusion and Supporting statements are incorrect, and that might explain why you fail to see how you draw the conclusion from the supporting arguments. The paragraph in question may contain more than one conclusion, and it may contain one or more opinions which the

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Noel J. Bergman wrote (06-06-11 23:51) Conclusion: I do not believe the ASF is likely to provide a good home for the OO.o project in the long run. Supporting statements: [...] Supporting explanation ;-) http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/browser -- -

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Cor Nouws wrote (07-06-11 00:31) Noel J. Bergman wrote (06-06-11 23:51) Conclusion: I do not believe the ASF is likely to provide a good home for the OO.o project in the long run. Supporting statements: [...] Supporting explanation ;-)

RE: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Cor Nouws wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote (06-06-11 23:51) Conclusion: I do not believe the ASF is likely to provide a good home for the OO.o project in the long run. Supporting statements: [...] Supporting explanation ;-)

RE: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Allen Pulsifer wrote: I think your labels Conclusion and Supporting statements are incorrect To the contrary, Cor indicates that I nailed the matter quite squarely. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-06 Thread Simon Phipps
Rather wondering why this is the one thread that won't die... On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Allen Pulsifer wrote: I think your labels Conclusion and Supporting statements are incorrect To the contrary, Cor indicates that I nailed the matter quite

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-04 Thread Cor Nouws
Cor Nouws wrote (04-06-11 01:49) Greg Stein wrote (04-06-11 01:10) That is the key difference. general@incubator is not talking to the press. It is an Apache process. Seems logic to me that you do not talk to the press about that (at this stage). Hmm, got that wrong I see now

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-04 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:52:48AM +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hmm, got that wrong I see now http://www.networkworld.com/community/apache-president-jim-jagielski-talks-openoffice-org Which is no problem for me, but obviously I misunderstood your statement about not talking to the press.

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-04 Thread Ian Lynch
On 4 June 2011 11:33, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:52:48AM +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hmm, got that wrong I see now http://www.networkworld.com/community/apache-president-jim-jagielski-talks-openoffice-org Which is no problem for me, but obviously I

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-04 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:52:48AM +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hmm, got that wrong I see now http://www.networkworld.com/community/apache-president-jim-jagielski-talks-openoffice-org Which is no problem for me, but obviously I

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-04 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 06:19:06AM -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: Jagielski says what is typical for Apache is building (or even _re-building_) communities around those codebases. Which is true. It does not say that TDF is not able to. ... He says that makes Apache the perfect place to help

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-04 Thread Ian Lynch
On 4 June 2011 12:19, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:52:48AM +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hmm, got that wrong I see now

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-04 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jim, Jim Jagielski wrote (04-06-11 12:33) On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:52:48AM +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hmm, got that wrong I see now http://www.networkworld.com/community/apache-president-jim-jagielski-talks-openoffice-org Which is no problem for me, but obviously I misunderstood your

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-04 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 4, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Jim, Jim Jagielski wrote (04-06-11 12:33) On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:52:48AM +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hmm, got that wrong I see now http://www.networkworld.com/community/apache-president-jim-jagielski-talks-openoffice-org Which is no

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-04 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: I can see why some might read into those statements implications that probably were not intended. That is the problem with perspectives :-) I used these quote to illustrate that and to put that in parallel with the complaint

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-04 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jim, Jim Jagielski wrote (04-06-11 19:42) I must have significantly misinterpreted the below: However, I do not believe the ASF is likely to provide a good home for the OO.o project in the long run, Meeks said. They are sufficiently confident and comfortable with their model that

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-03 Thread Simon Phipps
On 3 Jun 2011, at 21:14, Jim Jagielski wrote: Posts such as: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3935136/LibreOffice-340-Released-as-OpenOffice-Heads-to-Apache.htm certainly don't help. It just reinforces a perceived division as well as almost forcing the other side to

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-03 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jim, all, short intro Long time OpenOffice.org contributor in various areas. Mainly LibreOffice since Sept. 2010. One of the founders there. Now looking at a Thinderbird folder with more than 300 mails, of which I've only read a few up until now :-) Living in The Netherlands, so If I skip

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:50:43PM +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Jim, all, I do not understand why that should be a shame. All I read is explanation of the situation, among which implicitly an important difference: the copy-left versus non copy-left. That is a personal style, choice that is

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 16:50, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: ... Jim Jagielski wrote (03-06-11 22:14) Posts such as: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3935136/LibreOffice-340-Released-as-OpenOffice-Heads-to-Apache.htm certainly don't help. It just reinforces a perceived

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 17:57, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Michael is repeating some invariants that he and other LO/TDF people have stated, politely and consistently, since the inception of this discussion. They are committed to copyleft, they see dependencies with copyleft,

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-03 Thread Ian Lynch
In the long run we are all dead ;-) So let's concentrate on the short run to start with. On 4 Jun 2011 01:24, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 19:49, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: Greg Stein wrote (04-06-11 01:1... However, I do not believe the ASF is likely to

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-03 Thread Cor Nouws
Greg Stein wrote (04-06-11 02:23) On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 19:49, Cor Nouwsoo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: Greg Stein wrote (04-06-11 01:10) That is the key difference. general@incubator is not talking to the press. It is an Apache process. Seems logic to me that you do not talk to the press about

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 20:36, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: Greg Stein wrote (04-06-11 02:23) On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 19:49, Cor Nouwsoo...@nouenoff.nl  wrote: ... I don't see any smack in it. I read he is giving his opinion in a polite manner. (Have seen different quotes from him in the

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-03 Thread robert_weir
Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote on 06/03/2011 08:36:20 PM: (So seeing Robs questionnaire: it won't be easy to get ground for many positive replies. But of course it is good to try. I even might step in with some suggestions, that however always tend to fail, since my mind does not take

RE: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-03 Thread Allen Pulsifer
However, I do not believe the ASF is likely to provide a good home for the OO.o project in the long run, Meeks said. When I read that, I also did not see anything offensive. I believe when Michael said that he was thinking of OOo as he knows it, which is a desktop application. The ASF has no

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-03 Thread Cor Nouws
Greg Stein wrote (04-06-11 02:56) rather than talk bad about Still not get that 'bad' ;-) -- - http://nl.libreoffice.org - giving openoffice.org its foundation :: The Document Foundation - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: