On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:04 AM, <robert_w...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote on 06/05/2011 06:45:16 > PM: > >> > I'll lend a voice to the contrary. >> > >> > I can't see why splitting a community should be a factor in entry to > the >> > incubator. Just about every new open source community is trying topull > away >> > developers from another community doing similar stuff. That's the > nature of >> > the beast. >> >> True, but when its essentially the same software, rather than >> different software solving the same problem? If I proposed a new >> project that was a fork of the HTTP project, how would that go down? >> > > Apache is obviously a market success, nearly 63% market share by some > studies. OOo, relative to the stature of the main competitor > (Microsoft) has had much more modest penetration. Maybe 10%. LO market > share is much smaller, but that may be due to its very early status and > relatively lower adoption on Windows. Also, it has had only had 2 stable > releases so far, compared to the 10 year history of OOo. > > In any case, I hope you would agree that divergence in market leading > project should be evaluated by an entirely different set of criteria than > in the open source office suite area. They are not comparable at all. > > So I recommend the follow question for consideration: What gets us to 60% > for open source productivity? Or even a respectable 20% We might have > different opinions on that, but is there anyone truly so confident in > their own opinion that they would deny an attempt to try a different > approach? Apache OpenOffice could go to 20%. It could go to zero. LO > could go to 20%. It could go to zero. None of us are omniscient, not > even Simon ;-) But we know this much, starting from such humble > beginnings, we have far more to gain than lose by permitting multiple > horses to run in this race.
It could be argued either way. I am sure if IBM put its efforts to LibreOffice then I'm sure it would be a great success. So why doesn't IBM want to take part when theres a great FOSS community already in existence? Niall > -Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
