[Libreoffice] Hello! ... and lurking :-)
Hi all, I imagine you've all heard about the proposal[1] to contribute OO.o to the Apache Software Foundation. I've been involved with Apache for well over a decade, on its Board of Directors since 2001, its current Vice Chairman, the VP of Apache Subversion, and was the Chairman for five years. In short: lots of Apache experience. I've been following and participating in the discussion around the OO.o proposal on the gene...@incubator.apache.org list[1]. One of the threads of that discussion was to reach out to the people in the Document Foundation and the LibreOffice communities. So... that's this email. I'm now subscribed to discuss@df, steering-discuss@df, and libreoffice@freedesktop. I intend to lurk regarding all the regular work that you all are doing here. I'll be paying particular attention to any conversations or concerns that you may have about the OOo/Apache stuff, and will attempt to answer questions that you may have. I'm catching up on the archives now. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, then please feel free to direct them my way (on whatever list). I'm here to listen and understand, and to offer up answers where I can. Cheers, -g [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal [2] send mail to general-subscr...@incubator.apache.org if you would like to subscribe and directly talk about the proposal ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Re: [Libreoffice] Hello! ... and lurking :-)
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, then please feel free to direct them my way (on whatever list). I'm here to listen and understand, and to offer up answers where I can. I have a question: Why would Apache contemplate helping IBM pull a Jenkins/Hudson on us, fragmenting the license of a project that has been with a uniform licensing so far ? (Oracle could merge our changes... they elected _not_ to do so because they wanted a Copyright assignment on top of the code, but that was not a licensing incompatibility) You (Apache) are lending your good name to a nasty endeavor, for the benefit of a company that has an history of screwing you over (Harmony ?) Ironically what seems to be happening at Apache is very reminiscent to me to the ISO/MSXML debacle... Some corporation exploiting the letter of your governance to better abuse the spirit of it. (that is _if_ I understand what Apache stand for... but maybe I'm misguided) Norbert PS: I strongly encourage you to read: http://www.itworld.com/software/170521/big-winner-apache-openofficeorg#comment-9942111 That shed a very illuminating light on IBM's involvement in OOo, and why it is hard to take seriously their grandiose promises... that would by far not been the first time, and there is no reason to believe that the outcome will be any different this time around... except that both the OpenOffice brand and the Apache reputation will be tarnished in the process... ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
