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> On Sep 2, 2016, at 12:56 PM, toki <toki.kant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 02/09/2016 12:52, RA Stehmann wrote: > >>> being an end-user focused effort. I would suggest we focus on not >>> being one, but instead being a framework or library that can be consumed >>> by actual end-user implementations. > >> If AOO is not an end-user focused project > > AOo is one of the few --- perhaps only --- Apache Foundation project > that is end-user focused. It is the only one that is consumer, as > opposed to corporate focused. I might concede that AOO is the only end user focused project. I disagree with consumer vs corporate. Individuals have benefited greatly from all of the free projects like HTTPD, tomcat, poi, Tika, Solr, Lucene, to name a few. Corporations too. And you should be glad. While helping themselves they help others. > > As a framework, or library, the project would be much more aligned with > The Apache Foundation's sphere of expertise and knowledge. > >> Also people, who build binaries are obsolete. > > Even with frameworks, binaries have to be built. They simply aren't > distributed. Not true. Many and probably most Apache projects distribute binaries. > >> The first way might be the "Apache way", but it is definitely not the way >> for and of the OpenOffice community. > > Upon meeting, the couple is entranced with each other, and get married. > Having learnt more about each other, they discover that things are not > what they thought they were, so they get divorced. > If both sides had been willing to make adjustments, the divorce would > not have happened. We are striving to be a community and not a marriage. The bar to enter or exit a community is much different. Regards, Dave > > jonathon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
