On 06/02/2011 03:40 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote:
Florian Effenberger<flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote on 06/02/2011
06:39:12 AM:
This would not only be about reinventing the wheel, but also about
splitting the community, leading to disadvantages for end-users,
contributors, and enterprises.
I'd like to challenge your assertion here, about "splitting the
community", a nonsensical meme I'm hearing repeated in several venues.
First, would you disagree if I asserted, as a fact, that IBM is not a
member of LibreOffice? And that neither is Oracle? And that no initial
contributors currently on the wiki are TDF/LinbreOffice coders?
Maybe, but the LO people are the ones in the OSS community, and I don't
see any oracle FTEs signing up for this.
It seems to me, that in the Open Source world, TDF is the place for
ongoing post-OOo dev, just as Jenkins is the successor to Hudson.
> I think we can all point to many smaller such projects in this area that
> have thrived over the years based on community volunteers, with
relatively
> little corporate backing, e.g., AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc. There is nothing
> wrong with this. They are fine projects and have many unique qualities.
> But at at the same time, it is perfectly reasonable for others to have
> more ambitious goals, the goal of bringing this code base to scale in the
> market, a goal that can best (IMHO) be reached with strong corporate
> backing, working side-by-side with independent developers,
facilitated by
> a permissive license and an foundation of unimpeachable reputation and
> stability.
My desktop runs Linux. Lots of community there: volunteer and paid. I
don't see it's license being a hindrance. What matters is that everyone
is working together
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