On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:34 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > >> In my book, I talk for pages about the importance of the ODF standard. >> Did you know that OpenOffice is already behind LibreOffice when it >> comes to ODF support? It has to do with footnote markers. > > Which is apropos of...
ODF support is a big part of why these codebases matter. Will you need to create an ODF compatibility council between OpenOffice and LibreOffice? I'd like to see those matrices like you have for software licenses. > > Let's be clear, you have strong GPL opinions. There are many forums for > that decades-old debate; this list not being one of them. Oracle made > a choice. Therefore Sam or another iPMC member or I will shut down each > thread that debates the merits of AL/GPL, these were already detailed > much better elsewhere and don't bear repeating. I don't care about the license issue either. I have dropped it. I am concerned about the social engineering (costs) of forks and of duplicate teams doing the same thing. I have seen the Office codebases, and I know that if you guys work efficiently now, good things will happen soon. > > I expect that an Apache OOo project will have a great deal of respect > for the TDF/LO community and results based on the past five days of very > respectful discussion. If the converse happens, that's great too. None > of this is particularly relevant to the question at hand; should the ASF > accept a podling proposal to the incubator with an AL code grant from > Oracle? If your comments don't bear on this question, please hold them > for the dev@ list or take them elsewhere. > I am concerned only with what this podling would do. If that discussion is premature, we can leave it till later. However, it seems like knowing what you will do will help you figure out if you should do it. -Keith --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
