On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > On Jun 5, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Richard S. Hall <he...@ungoverned.org> >> wrote: >>> On 6/5/11 16:50, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Niall Pemberton >>>> <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> IMO the only negative thing then about LibreOffice is the copyleft >>>>> license - everything else about them is great. When deciding whether >>>>> to accept OO we should consider whether that and facilitating BigCos >>>>> interests is worth splitting the FOSS community. >>>>> >>>>> I am considering voting -1 to this proposal for those reasons. >>>> >>>> Thanks for expressing my feelings so well, Niall! >>> >>> 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 to pull 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? > > If you proposed a new project to implement the HTTP server in Java and got a > community around it I'd vote +1. I wouldn't join because it wouldn't scratch > any itch I have but I wouldn't stand in the way.
Me too - but thats different from proposing a fork of httpd here. >>> For me, getting the OOo code fully available under AL is reason enough to +1 >>> it as far as I'm concerned...if I were on the IPMC... :-) >> >> License is important, but thats not all the ASF is about. Community is >> important too. I respect you're right to vote however you wish but if >> all its down to is license then I'm not sure. > > I care about end users. If my employer wanted to build a product that > required ODF and was going to be delivered to a desktop I am 100% sure I > would not be able to use LibreOffice. They would happily consume Apache > Office. Community is important to me, but only in the sense that a > successful community can be built here. > Right, but the ASF is not here for our employers and their products. Niall > Ralph --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
