I don't think there's any question at this point that there will be a peaceful coexistence between LO and Apache OO. Most of us in the IPMC tho are trying for a better pooling of resources than to simply have 2 competing brands.
Pragmatic developers will want to see the general decisions and directions of the two projects to move in concert with one another, so as to maximize code reuse. Ideally we can convince LO to "pull" from us as upstream providers of the core of the product, and they will respect our license headers accordingly. And when contributions come back to them regarding that core, they will either tell the contributor to resubmit upstream or do so on their behalf. I think at this point that would be the best situation for both communities. But it leaves LO subject to our decisions, which will be a sticking point for many devs who don't want to get involved with the ASF. To bridge that gap will require trust bonds to be built on both sides. Generosity with the use of the OOo mark on our part combined with generosity from TDF regarding build/distribution resources is just a first step in the chain. ----- Original Message ---- > From: "robert_w...@us.ibm.com" <robert_w...@us.ibm.com> > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Sun, June 5, 2011 3:44:35 PM > Subject: Re: OpenOffice: were are we now? > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
