On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On 14 Jun 2011, at 16:54, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> >> On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: >> >>> >>> On 14 Jun 2011, at 16:09, Greg Stein wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Our charitable status specifically precludes us from competition. >>> >>> What does it say about collaborating with others? Anything? (serious >>> question, I have no idea). >>> >> >> In essence, as a public trust, the ASF must operate in a way >> that does not favor one vendor or partner or collaborator >> "over" another. This is one reason why the ASF was, for example, >> unable to continue within the JCP EC, since our involvement >> in there provided more "benefit" to Oracle than to anyone >> else. > > Would that preclude treating TDF as a collaborative peer? Being a non-profit > itself FrODeV is presumably bound by the same limitation so collaborating > with it would not violate that requirement for neutrality. >
It would not prevent us from working with TDF at all in the ways we've been discussing, no. -- 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
