On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Ian Lynch <ianrly...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Look guys, this is going round in circles. I'm not an ASF or TDF member but > I spent quite a lot of time and effort on OOo and ODF in the past so I care > what happens. The fact is the software grant is made. My understanding is > that if the code goes into the incubator it does not even guarantee it will > emerge as a marketable product. It might just sit on a shelf in ASF > gathering dust because no-one really has the resources to do anything with > it. OTOH it might thrive and take over the desktop office world (I wish :-) > ) . At this point there is no way of knowing. All this incubator process is > supposed to do is see if ASF members think it has some potential. Its good > to get all the issues out in the open but this one on the "IBM conspiracy > theory" is really exhausted. It's not going to change anything. > > Let's say we persuaded the good guys at Apache that this is a ploy to > manipulate them and they reject the code. Where then will it go? If > conspiracy is right it definitely won't be to TDF and it could be to > somewhere a lot more damaging to TDF than the ASF. > > +1
