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. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
