On 14 Jun 2011, at 16:54, Jim Jagielski wrote:

> 
> On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Simon Phipps wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 14 Jun 2011, at 16:09, Greg Stein wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Our charitable status specifically precludes us from competition. 
>> 
>> What does it say about collaborating with others?  Anything?  (serious 
>> question, I have no idea).
>> 
> 
> In essence, as a public trust, the ASF must operate in a way
> that does not favor one vendor or partner or collaborator
> "over" another. This is one reason why the ASF was, for example,
> unable to continue within the JCP EC, since our involvement
> in there provided more "benefit" to Oracle than to anyone
> else.

Would that preclude treating TDF as a collaborative peer? Being a non-profit 
itself FrODeV is presumably bound by the same limitation so collaborating with 
it would not violate that requirement for neutrality.

S.


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