Hi Don, I have read your email, and I understand there is a huge perception 
asymmetry between us, which I will try to explain with a blog post (as I do not 
feel appropriate to discuss this on a mailing list). Best regards, Italo

Italo Vignoli
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On 07/feb/2012, at 03:53, donald_harbi...@us.ibm.com wrote:

> IBM has not been bashing LibreOffice. 
> 
> Italo, call me if you want to discuss. There is no 'bashing' going on. 
> Please stop. We are both open source projects, Apache and TDF. Let's start 
> to have some respect showing please. It will help everyone.
> 
> Personal blogs are personal blogs. There is no enmity toward LibreOffice 
> from IBM. Let me be clear. Yes, we have some difference of opinion on 
> foundations and licensing and so on, but we share a common passion. I hope 
> you see this.
> 
> What is this talk about a competitor product? The Apache OpenOffice 
> project does not seek to compete with LibreOffice. 
> 
> It's time to stop this nonsense. 
> 
> Respectfully,
> 
> /don
> 
> Donald Harbison
> Program Director
> IBM Open Document Format Initiative
> Software Group
> 
> Mobile: +1-978-761-0116
> 
> 
> 
> From:   Pedro <pedl...@gmail.com>
> To:     discuss@documentfoundation.org, 
> Date:   02/04/2012 09:37 AM
> Subject:        [tdf-discuss] Re: IBM is alive ;)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> italovignoli wrote
>> 
>> IBM has never been involved in TDF, and has been openly bashing TDF and
>> LibreOffice on personal blogs of IBM employees and AOOoI mailing lists.
>> Sorry, but IBM is off topic here.
>> 
> 
> I am well aware of all that (IMO some IBM employees bashing TDF on their
> blogs and on public mailing lists and forums, does not make it a corporate
> decision ;) ). 
> 
> Yet, this is also about a competitor product based on the same (original)
> source code.
> 
> The migration to the Cloud seems quite interesting and fit for a general
> discussion list ;)
> 
> Especially because a cloud version or cloud connected version of 
> LibreOffice
> is in TDF's plans?
> 
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