Davide Dozza wrote: > Sorry Allen but you are in contradiction. Before you say "Regardless of who's fault" and at the end > it seems you are accusing TDF to be the cause of the community fracture.
I made no accusations and assigned no fault. I'm also not interested in assigning fault or blame. That's an unfortunate distraction it seems many have gotten caught up in, and IMO, it has only hurt the project not helped it. On that point, let me be clear: There are millions of potential users for OOo, LO, and open document formats. Many of those potential users work in companies, government agencies and other organizations that routinely trust Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and other large corporations to meet their IT needs. Getting in a public spat with any of those companies does not help the project in the least, it only hurts it. End users do not care about who's right, who's wrong, who's been slighted, who is more pure, etc. They just care about products and technologies that are going to meet their needs. For many users, the best thing OOo had going for it was that it was backed by Sun and there was a commercial version users they could turn to if they needed support, etc. Now that Oracle has pulled out, that is gone and TdF cannot replace it. Regardless of individual feelings, the best the TdF and its members could do at this point would be to put on a smiling face, magnanimously congratulate the ASF for joining the community, and at least make it look like they were working closely with IBM to bring the best possible open document technologies to the world. If most or almost all of the LO contributors joined the Apache OpenOffice project, if only to lend moral support and help heal the rift, that would only be good for LO and the TdF. The best time to do that is now. Best Regards, Allen -- 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