Hi Sam, Sam Ruby wrote on 2011-06-06 02.02:
I can tell you that those decisions are made above Rob's and my pay grades. Way above.
maybe - looking behind corporate walls, so to say, is sometimes a bit complicated. I don't personally blame anyone for this, but reading some rumors or comments, especially towards TDF and the people driving it, sometimes even feels, well, at least a bit strange.
My personal summary for now is that I tried to clarify some fuzz going around, and to state why I think that setting up a parallel project does not make any sense at all, but rather leads to community splitting and market irritation, especially given that the granted source code seems to be lacking important parts, and there is no real idea on how to provide continuity for users (e.g. releasing OOo 3.4.0). All of this will do *much* harm, IMHO even more than the benefit of having the license you favor.
Creative solutions for working on the licensing issue surely exist, and Simon mentioned one of them. Setting up things in parallel is not necessarily required from my POV.
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