Hi Ramon,
Am 19.10.2010 10:38, schrieb Ramon Sole:
Hello *
since the TDF has always offered Oracle to join the new Community and
donate his intellectual property is obvious the fork has been made
because there's a fight for who rules the Community, that's all.
If Oracle had joined TDF (obviously dragging the rest of the OOo
Community members), the people in TDF would have been virtually the same
there was in OOo. The only difference would have been the
responsabilities of that people.
But if the roles on TDF has to be based in contributions or meritocracy,
Oracle contributes about 80% of the programmers; furthermore most of
them are the people who developed the core of OOo. So Oracle would
deserve to rule in TDF too if they join. And I'm not joking, think about
it, pls. So let me doubt about the sincerity of the "joining offer" from
TDF to Oracle. The offer was "join us, but we'll rule on own way", which
ironically it's the same TDF people is complaining Sun/Oracle did on OOo.
Why TDF founders didn't try to change the OOo community rules by
democracy or meritocracy before the fork? I've never read on any list a
formal or even informal proposal about that. They just decide to take
control of everything without asking the Community, and the only way of
doing that is leaving OOo and convince as many people as they can to
join the fork. That's fair as far as they resign their OOo
responsibilities as soon as possible. Why didn't they do it since first
day it's not understandable to me. I do why some people is trying to
keep its seats: they will able to say afterwords: "Oracle fired us,
they're tyranic, do you see?".
So everything is just about who has the power. And whose pocket's drops
the money OpenOffice is going to generate in next years. Do smells it
bad around here or it's just me?
A very realistic view on the stuff that is going on now, just one
correction, you said
> and the only way of
> doing that is leaving OOo and convince as many people as they can to
> join the fork
Well, actually they do not do that. They just assume that everyone
at OOo is the community and the community loves to be ruled by
the people that started the foundation. As there are others like
you that are part of the community but not employed by Oracle and
not in favor of the current Foundation, the Foundation is
practically taking the community hostage. So in their Mindset
just because you are in this mailing list means you are in
favor of LibreOffice. There currently is no other option for you
but leave the community. I'm do not know why I don't read more upset
mails about this fact.
Regards,
Christian
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