On 2010-10-14, at 21:40 , Joey Stanford wrote: >> This is not an Oracle issue. Rather, it's a longstanding OpenOffice.org >> policy not to permit the use of our resources for the advocacy of other >> projects or interests. > >> The issue at stake is not an us vs. them thing. > > By your own admission, it is. Regardless of whether Charles should or > should not have posted, you've just told everyone that even though the > code base between OpenOffice and LibreOffice is the same, and many of > the people are currently the same, Oracle doesn't want to collaborate > but rather dictate. This just adds to the justification of the fork > that just happened.
I have said that? I'm curious to know when. But I'll save some time. My point is rather that there is both actual and probably confusion and that's a bad thing, for OpenOffice.org. Again, this is not an Oracle thing; it is a longstanding policy of OpenOffice.org's. We also happily accept those working on and affiliated with other projects to work on OpenOffice.org; but we also expect them then, if they become representatives of the project, to do so without the shadow of a conflict of interest. In this case, I believe there is a conflict of interest. Logically, there must be: else, there would not have been a split in the first place. -louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org
