Eike Rathke, 16-10-2010 11:53:
Hi Florian,
On Saturday, 2010-10-16 15:17:07 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote:
if "LibreOffice" is a "competing product", so is Oracle Open Office,
and so is OOo4Kids. Maybe even OpenOffice.org Portable. If we remove
all of those people, nobody's left in the Council...
I beg to differ. None of them claims to be "the next evolution" of OOo,
as TDF does for LO. None of them is creating uncertainty within the OOo
community as does LO. Specifically, neither Oracle Open Office nor
OpenOffice.org Portable forked the OOo code base and project for their
product as did LO.
How can someone doesn't care if Oracle releases an product with some not
merged/ported back changes and care if TDF does this?
How can someone complains about TDF releasing OOo with another name and
doesn't with Oracle?
What is the problem of making a fork while you propose to merge changes
back, so benefiting everyone?
Can't everyone see the main barrier for the code from outside being
merged/ported to OOo are the Oracle will and the SCA?
Why couldn't the Linux user be happy with gstreamer instead of
leveraging on JMF (which does not have audio with the Oracle JVM on Linux)?
An "OpenOffice.org" with the Oracle logo and a "Oracle Open Office",
while most users call "OpenOffice.org" just "Open Office", this may
sound confusing. This is clear for all of us, but we're involved on the
project and most of us are "power users". But this may not be too clear
for everyone else. And an ordinary user landing on Oracle's page he may
think he have to pay for "Open Office".
Go to http://shop.oracle.com/ostore , search for "Open Office" and see
what Oracle uses to describe their product.
Then compare with the download page of the Document Foundation.
What's the difference? Why is there conflict of interest with TDF and
there is not COI with Oracle?
I agree with the arguments about a COI between TDF and OOo. And what
about Oracle and OOo?
Doesn't means reasonable that there isn't a COI between Oracle and OOo
because the Oracle's interests will prevail?
That's happening for years and most of us accept because Oracle pays for
most of the development. That's so natural that the majority of people
criticizing TDF don't take this into account.
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