On Jun 8, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: >> >> Certainly being an independent, legally established foundation is >> critical, isn't it, as compare to one which is "just" a legally >> established one? Not saying that TDF isn't at all, but the >> 'independent' part is important. > > Not really hugely important, as long as everything is open to scrutiny and > beyond the control of any interested party - transparency is the key, just > like it is at Apache. Any organisation can be gamed - it's a function of > having rules, since "every system of rules contains within it the game that > plays it and ultimately subverts it"[1]. But it will indeed be good when TDF > is able to complete the bootstrap process so the innuendo can stop.
Agreed... the only reason I mention "independent" is that even a clearly independent foundation such as the ASF has been alluded to be in cahoots with IBM/Oracle regarding all this, so I'm sure that TDF will get the same amount of scrutiny and baseless claims, and being able to point to their independence will nip that in the bud. Cheers! -- 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
