Florian, there's an issue in this thread under discuss which you and the rest of the SC might like to discuss.
//James On Apr 22, 2011, at 00:11 , James Wilde wrote: > > On Apr 21, 2011, at 23:09 , drew wrote: > >> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 22:40 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: >>> 2011/4/21 drew <d...@baseanswers.com> >>> >>>> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 19:05 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: >>>>> 2011/4/21 James Wilde <james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com> >>>>> >>>>>> Just got this message in my inbox. I wonder if sending him a note >>>> about >>>>>> LibO would be considered to be in breach of the comprehensive warning >>>> at the >>>>>> bottom. >>>>>> >>>>>> //James >>>>>> >>>>>> Begin forwarded message: >>>>>> >>>>>>> From: SAEED AHMED <saeed.ah...@3i-infotech.com> >>>>>>> Date: April 20, 2011 15:34:31 GMT+02:00 >>>>>>> To: "us...@openoffice.org" <us...@openoffice.org> >>>>>>> Subject: [users] Licensing Details >>>>>>> Reply-To: us...@openoffice.org >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>> receipt of the posting can be considered erroneous. As the paragraph does >>>>> not explicitly prohibit mentioning LibO in sucjh a notification, I also >>>>> presume that you would be within your rights to do so. The above, of >>>> course, >>>>> with the caveat that I am hardly an expert in Indian, Singaporean, Thai, >>>>> Malaysian, or UK legal practices.... >>>>> >>>>> Henri >>>> >>>> >>>> That's all well and good - but - contacting him is simply _wrong_ IMO. >>>> >>>> He asked a question on the OpenOffice.org users list, not LibreOffice. >>>> >>>> To forward such a message here was wrong and such actions should NOT be >>>> tolerated. >>>> >>>> Sincerely, >>>> >>>> Drew Jensen >>>> >>> >>> «It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a *difference of >>> opinion* that *makes horse races*.» >>> >> Hi Henri >> >> Sorry, I have to disagree. >> >> If James truly believes it is appropriate to respond to a query of this >> nature, made on the OpenOffice.org mailing list, with a recommendation >> to use a different application then he should (must) be willing to do so >> in the open, on that mailing list. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Drew Jensen > > Well, I did have my thoughts on this, which was why I asked. However, the > responses have made me think hard about this. > > Recently there was some discussion about the decision of the European Union > to renegotiate with Microsoft about new licenses for Office, without putting > the matter out to tender, and I think I can say that a large number of voices > thought that TDF should take action, at least making noise about the EU not > following its own policy on tendering. I don't remember how the news got > out, but it was made public, and someone in here latched on to it. I don't > know whether TDF actually did anything about it, but there was a lot of > agreement that they should do. > > Now someone has made information available on a public list which could be > beneficial to TDF in a similar though smaller way, and I have decided that I > see no problem with making use of that public information. I will wait > (nearly) 24 hours for someone from the top of TDF to tell me no, and if that > doesn't come, I will contact the poster offline. The time now is 00:09, so > TDF has until midnight today. > > //James >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
