Hi André,
Op 15-10-2010 19:01, André Schnabel schreef:
Hi Louis,
Am 15.10.2010 18:05, schrieb Louis Suárez-Potts:
I guess then we disagree. For I see OpenOffice.org as quite distinct
and different from Oracle, just as it was different from Sun, and
just as it differs from any one company. OOo is a community of
differences and likes.
I think, we agree, that people within Sun / Oracle have been working
hard within the last 10 years did contribute massively to
OpenOffice.org. At the same time they were working on StarOffice, what
now became "Oracle Open Office". People inside Sun often have manager
role in the company and are project lead at OpenOffice.org - that's
quite normal. We lived with this for several years and never discussed
about comflict of interests, although all those people worked for a
commercial entity that had own goals - and a free software project at
the same time.
So now, that Charles (and many others) felt, that it would be worth to
bring the community into the next decade and work on the idea of an
independent foundation .. we remove them from their roles because they
have a conflict of interest?
Wouldn't it be logical to argue that Oracle staff also has a conflict
of interest?
I don't think so. Many members of the community have their own
commercial goals in contributing to OpenOffice.org. That does not mean
there is a conflict of interest.
And note that the Oracle employed members still contribute to
OpenOffice.org directly, and their interest is that other community
members keep doing so as well. In contrast, the TDF have an interest in
community members moving over to TDF and start contributing to
LibreOffice instead.
If I may quote from the TDF announcement:
"From now on, the OpenOffice.org community will be known as "The
Document Foundation"."
"... the former OpenOffice.org community ..."
I find it quite peculiar that persons behind that statement are so keen
to keep a representative position in a community that they effectively
proclaimed doesn't exist anymore.
--
Vriendelijke groet,
Simon Brouwer.
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