On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:40 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > > I'd like to think that no one is working on LibreOffice merely because > they have no choice, or that giving everyone a choice is seen as being > antagonistic. If truly 100% of the LibreOffice members prefer TDF to > Apache, then you have nothing to worry about, right? If some prefer > Apache, then you have worries, if you choose to worry about such things, > but I don't take it as a moral fault in Apache or in the authors of this > proposal that we are offering an open source development choice that some > developers might prefer over TDF. >
I don't see this as 2 "competing" projects... well, maybe right now it is, but what it is "now" doesn't mean that is how it should be, or will turn out to be. One simple example: Imagine the Apache project as the core "guts" of OOo, the framework. With TDF working on parts that extend and enhance OOo, in a modular fashion, for a particular set of end-users... or something like that. Or something different from that. What I'm trying to say is simple 1-1 duplication is stupid, at least in my mind. I don't see that as our only option; in fact, I see that as a really short-sighted one. We can all certainly do much better than that. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
