Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote on 06/05/2011 02:21:01 PM:
> > This proposal raises lots of questions, but the requirements for > entering the incubator are not high and so IMO don't need to be > answered before a vote. The only reason I believe for rejecting this > proposal would be because it would be in the best interests of the > community to not split the FOSS development and compete with > LibreOffice. > Not to state the obvious, but OOo was LGPL when LO split from it last year. If you look at the list of proposed committers, you will see names with openoffice.org addresses. The community is currently split. It has been for quite a while now. This predates this discussion and it predates LO. There was a split between Novell and Sun/Oracle years ago. Any analysis that does not acknowledge these critical facts is incomplete. The community is split today. I am puzzled by the view one open source project should not compete against another. We have several Linux distros. We have BSD. We have other FOSS office suites, like KOffice, Abi Word, Gnumeric, etc. Some might even suggest, just to be provocative, that progress often comes from competition. Just as clearly, progress comes from collaboration as well. It will probably end up to be a mix of competition and collaboration. That is not necessarily a bad thing. -Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
