To me the proof point whether this proposal will be successful or not is whether Linux distributions having already dropped support for OpenOffice and switched to LibreOffice instead would be willing to reverse that decision and move back to OpenOffice again now that it is in a process to be proposed to become an Apache incubator project.
Cheers Daniel On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I view this proposal very critical. IMO, OpenOffice@Apache would be a dead > end: > > - There is an existing community over at LibreOffice. So what good > does it, to build a second community here? > - The afore mentioned community was built exactly, because the > initiators of the current proposal have been unable to hold the > community. Why should they do any better, if the code base where moved > to Apache? > - While LibreOffice could take over any ASL'ed code, the opposite > wouldn't be true. In other words, LibreOffice would have a very clear > advantage that could never be eliminated as long as the project where > ASL'ed. > > Jochen > > -- > I Am What I Am And That's All What I Yam (Popeye) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
