Am 06.06.2011 03:08, schrieb robert_w...@us.ibm.com: > But I am very very very concerned that this conversation is starting to > cross over into a "division of market" conversation, which has stiff > penalties under US and international competition law. Open source work, > like standards, is work done voluntarily among competitors in the market. > There are some things we must not talk about, especially things where > competitors may be seen as arranging to reduce competition. We need to > steer the conversation far from this.
The discussion is not about reducing competition but about a reasonable potential division of labor between Open Source projects to avoid duplicate work. For some it might also be about eliminating an existing monopoly regarding office applications. To some extent this requires joining forces, not dividing them. Cheers, Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
